Man shot in the head on Ross Avenue
A Watsonville man was shot late Thursday night on Ross Avenue.
FBI offers reward for Planned Parenthood arson
The FBI has offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the suspect who started a fire at the Planned Parenthood in Watsonville on July 20.
Temporary Valencia Road bridge reconnects residents
After months of taking a circuitous route to take their children to and from school and to run everyday errands, residents of a small Aptos neighborhood on Monday for the first time walked across a new bridge that connects them to their community.
Pearl Harbor survivors hold annual gathering
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Group meeting at the California Grill has become a South County tradition.
Watsonville envisions end to traffic deaths
After experiencing seven traffic fatalities over the past few years in the city, Watsonville has a new vision: to eliminate all fatalities and severe injuries on city streets by 2030.
Connecting through art
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.
Knights of Columbus hands over donation
Hope Services, the Watsonville-based organization that serves people with developmental disabilities, got a financial boost Friday after another organization gave them a donation.
Police: Woman strikes, kills husband in DUI crash
A Watsonville woman was arrested Saturday night after allegedly hitting and killing her husband with her vehicle while drunk.
Program enforces traffic, pedestrian laws
Multiple law agencies joined forces Thursday to fan out around Watsonville and stop drivers who were violating traffic safety issues in a program known as BADGES, or Before Aggressive Drivers Get Everyone Stopped.
From tragedy, a ‘blessing’
Salvation Army Capt. Harold Laubach Jr. leads the organization’s Santa Cruz location, and also coordinates the organization’s programs throughout Santa Cruz County.
“Know their names” event memorializes dead Gazan children
Many of the several dozen people gathered at the Santa Cruz County Government Center Friday afternoon were in tears as Rolla Alaydi described her...