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The Watsonville High School drama department is presenting “She Kills Monsters,” a play that combines fantasy, high school angst, gender and familial estrangement.

Nearly eight months into an impasse with the firefighters’ union, the city will spend an additional $180,000 in consultant fees to come up with a new contract.

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District on Wednesday rejected a petition by a charter school organization that hoped to open a new school in Watsonville for the 2019-20 school year. They also approved salary increases for teachers and management positions.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to allow up to four marijuana-based events at the county fairgrounds, along with a sizable framework of regulations governing the events.

A federal court ruled Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency must enact a nationwide ban of the pesticide chlorpyrifos, a move that comes as vindication to activists who have long sought to eliminate it.

For one of its screenings Saturday, the Watsonville Film Festival showed “Mele Murals,” a documentary that focuses on two street artists in Hawaii as they create graffiti art in their rural community.

California's Great America introduced its newest roller coaster, RailBlazer, during an unveiling event Wednesday morning.

Hundreds of people marched from Aptos Village Park to the State Park freeway overpass and back Saturday morning to protest gun violence.

I know the day he died, Jack O'Neill, as a day my world got bigger even as the earth became one person smaller.

The massive cluster of wildfires in Napa County has so far clawed its way through nearly 192,000 acres, destroyed some 5,700 homes and businesses and killed 34 people. But it has also spewed smoke throughout the Bay Area, as far away as Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties.