Sheriff: Woman shot after ramming deputy with police cruiser
A Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s deputy shot and injured a woman early Friday in Santa Cruz after she reportedly slipped out of her handcuffs and rammed a deputy with a police cruiser.
New parks director at the helm as summer season approaches
Nick Calubaquib was recently hired as the director of the City of Watsonville Parks and Community Services Department, overseeing the city’s 26 parks, 30 full-time employees and nearly 50 part-time workers.
Taking their cause on the road
AIDS/LifeCycle, a seven-day, 545-mile fundraising ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles, passed through Watsonville on Monday.
Watsonville joins national immigration rally
Protests broke out across the nation Thursday in response to new immigration policies implemented by the Trump Administration that have been separating children from their families at the Mexico-U.S. border.
Woman who allegedly rammed deputy pleads not guilty
A Santa Cruz woman who was shot after allegedly stealing a Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s cruiser and striking a deputy with it made her first court appearance Wednesday morning, where she pleaded not guilty.
Watsonville Fourth of July parade draws large crowds
People lined Main Street from Freedom Boulevard and all the way past Watsonville Plaza this afternoon for the annual Fourth of July Parade.
Relay For Life raises $100K for cancer research
The American Cancer Society got a major boost from Watsonville this weekend when the annual Relay For Life at Watsonville High School raised nearly $60,000.
Watsonville company sells technology to Chilean tribe
A Watsonville company best known for converting crop by-products into clean-burning fuel has gone global.
Kenyans Kipruto, Rotich make triumphant returns to Wharf to Wharf
The 2018 Wharf to Wharf passes through Santa Cruz Sunday.
Man arrested in levee death
Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies on Friday arrested a Pajaro man for the murder of Watsonville resident Jesús Alfonso Duarte Figueroa, whose body was found...
