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Nearly 50 percent of California’s 3.2 million students met or exceeded English Language Arts standards on state tests from the past academic year, numbers nearly identical to those from 2016 results.

When Watsonville High School government and economics teacher Sara Roe received her Ph.D. on Oct. 2, she defended her dissertation in front of a panel of professors.

On Friday, the Pajaro Valley Association of Realtors (PVAOR) held its annual golf tournament with proceeds to be donated to Watsonville's own women's shelter.

Seventy-six years after more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were imprisoned across the nation, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors issued a formal apology.

The Watsonville City Council unanimously voiced its support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program Tuesday, joining numerous cities across the country in reaction to President Donald Trump’s decision to end the program.

During Open Farm Tours on Sunday, 10 family farms open their doors to the public to give them a glimpse of a world normally closed to the public.

A bicyclist was killed Monday night after being struck by a vehicle on Main Street near Auto Center Drive, according to Watsonville Police Sgt. Jarrod Pisturino.

Kathleen Crocetti is joined by Irene Lusztig and Helen and Newton Harrison as the 2016-2017 recipients of the Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Program, who will present the work they have completed over the past two years at an exhibit at the R. Blitzer Gallery. The exhibit opens Friday.

In the midst of her work day on Dec. 16, Lupe Herrera was called out of E.A. Hall Middle School’s main office after being told she was needed at the school’s assembly. Students, teachers and faculty were lined up together outside, and when Herrera stepped into view, everyone began to cheer.

Members of the community came together at Second Harvest Food Bank on Thursday night to celebrate farmers, growers and food distributors in the Pajaro Valley.