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Aurelio Gonzalez was sworn into the Watsonville City Council Tuesday evening.

Nearly one year after Community Foundation Santa Cruz County (CFSCC) CEO Lance Linares announced his retirement, the organization has hired his replacement.

New fencing, topped with barbed wire and razor wire — a bold “stay out” statement — has been installed this week at the edge of a bridge over Watsonville Slough on Harkins Slough Road behind Ramsay Park.

Incumbent Rebecca Garcia is facing off against challenger Casey Clark in the District 5 race in November.

After last winter’s storms caused $10 million in damages to the federal levee system, including some flooding, the Pajaro River levee improvement project has kicked into high gear.

The Trump administration's decision to end a program that lets immigrants from four countries live and work legally in the U.S. was motivated by racism and leaves the immigrants' American born children with an "impossible choice," according to a federal lawsuit filed on Monday.

The City of Watsonville joined more than 150 municipalities across the country in opposing expanded offshore drilling, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order in April calling for its reevaluation.

A Watsonville development company will break ground in August on a project that will add a hotel, a restaurant and two small shops to Watsonville.

The Summer in the City Internship Program, a program put on by the City of Watsonville and Pajaro Valley Unified School District, kicks off its inaugural year July 9-27.

The Santa Cruz Local Agency Formation Commission will consider allowing Watsonville to annex a 2.4-acre property into city limits Wednesday.