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Santa Cruz County Public Works Director John Presleigh, who led the county through multiple cycles of storm recovery and was a key statewide advocate for local transportation dollars, will retire in April.

The truck driver who backed over and killed a coworker as they cleared a mudslide on Highway 17 last year was under the influence of methadone at the time and should not have been driving, according to a lawsuit filed Jan. 17 in Santa Cruz County Superior Court.

The annual World Wetlands Day will kick off the Watsonville Urban Forest Revitalization Project, which, over a two-year period, will add 300 trees and hundreds of drought-tolerant native shrubs at 10 park sites and three street corridors.

More than 500 people packed the J.J. Crosetti Building for the Pajaro Valley Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture’s annual awards dinner Saturday evening, which included a live and silent auction.

The annual countywide Spelling Bee took place Saturday at UC Santa Cruz. Students from fourth to ninth grade participated in two separate groups.

This year’s severe influenza season is wreaking havoc, keeping legions of children home from school and adults from work, but it is also having another effect.

A Santa Cruz man was arrested Saturday after allegedly fleeing the scene of a collision he caused, and then barricading himself in his residence with a loaded gun when officers arrived, California Highway Patrol spokeswoman Trista Drake said.

A massive concrete wall, asphalt removal, landscape demolition, and tons of sand heaped up is just part of a dramatic reshaping of the beachfront at Twin Lakes State Beach.

City officials welcomed state and federal legislators Friday morning, asking for their help with a variety of issues affecting Watsonville.

The ramifications of Reid’s protest is a topic on its own, but if we look at the probability of him returning to the Niners in a vacuum, it still doesn’t look great. Even though he played extremely well down the stretch, it’s tough to forget that he was buried down the depth chart when Tart and Ward were healthy. Add Colbert into the mix, and his chances of staying in San Francisco only get murkier.