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The Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau called on community members Wednesday to encourage young people to consider careers in agriculture.

The 12th annual Relay for Life, a signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, took over Emmett M. Geiser Field at Watsonville High School over the weekend.

Three of the men who took part in a 2014 gang-related shooting that left a man and a 4-year-old girl dead have been given prison sentences, jail records show.

A quick-thinking customer is credited with saving a building from serious damage Monday morning.

To help quell an expected uptick in holiday-fueled drunk driving, Watsonville Police Department is partnering with the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in the annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over program.

Santa Cruz County on Wednesday reported its first death caused by influenza this season, a person listed only as being under 65.

On the season’s first day of heavy rain, hundreds of homeless and low-income people came to the Veterans Memorial Building for a hot meal and a chance to utilize several services that normally might be out of reach to them.

Put on by Fiestas Patrias, the 28th annual Cinco de Mayo celebration in downtown Watsonville drew about 15,000 people.

Assuming Santa Cruz County would deliver its usual gloom for Monday’s solar eclipse, I played hooky from work, loaded my boys in the car and headed inland to San Jose.

The Watsonville City Council is scheduled to consider appointing Matt Huffaker as the new city manager Tuesday, following the resignation of City Manager Charles Montoya.