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A group of 12 young California Conservation Corps (CCC) members stood together in front of their future headquarters on Aviation Way in Watsonville on Wednesday, swearing an oath to do their jobs to the best of their ability.

The Watsonville City Council overturned its previous decision Tuesday and allowed the city’s existing medical marijuana facilities to cultivate and manufacture the product for recreational use.

Every year, the Santa Cruz County Animal Shelter takes in thousands of animals at its two locations, a menagerie that can include cats and dogs, rabbits and snakes, horses and hamsters.

The American Red Cross urgently needs blood and platelet donations to help address a winter blood shortage, the organization recently announced.

Pajaro Valley Unified School District’s headquarters building is for sale, and the district’s board of trustees on Wednesday will hear an update of plans to possibly purchase it.

When organizers began to plan Santa Cruz’s first Martin Luther King Jr. march, it was unclear how many people would come. But hundreds had gathered an hour before the event began Monday, and by its 10 a.m. start, thousands packed the streets of the downtown area as marchers went from Cathcart Street, down Pacific Avenue and ended at Front Street.

Hyde is a known commodity. He is a good to very good player at this point of his career. He will carry a big contract from here on out, but he will not be a question mark like Breida or Williams. That works in his favor, but it doesn’t guarantee that the Niners will bring him back. They not only have Breida and Williams, but four picks in the heart of the draft that they can use on another prospect.

The Watsonville City Council will look to lift its restrictions on recreational marijuana Tuesday, a little more than a year after it prohibited the sale and manufacturing of the product.

In an opening salvo in what could be a protracted legal battle, the Exxon Mobil Corporation has fired back at a lawsuit filed in December by the City and County of Santa Cruz.

Hope Services, the Watsonville-based organization that serves people with developmental disabilities, got a financial boost Friday after another organization gave them a donation.