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Former Watsonville City Manager Carlos Palacios was sworn in as the new County Administrative Officer for Santa Cruz County Tuesday at the County Board of Supervisors meeting.

Among more than 350 Watsonville High School seniors who graduate in June, 54 will attend California State University campuses, while 23 will go to University of California. Stanford and Yale universities snagged one WHS student each.

Thousands of people filled the streets of Santa Cruz Saturday for the city's second-annual Women's March, a nationwide event created last year to protest the policies of President Donald Trump.

The Watsonville Police Department on Thursday issued a warning that scammers are using “virtual kidnappings” to trick people out of their money.

A driver who managed to elude police after leading them on a high-speed chase on Highway 1 Friday night died in a crash minutes later.

Workers are busy with 50 construction and renovation projects at 27 sites throughout Pajaro Valley Unified School District, thanks to Measure L, the $150 million bond approved by voters in 2012.

The Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees will consider purchasing a mobile app that would be free to its users, and is designed to bolster literacy for children long before they come to school.

Fall semester at Cabrillo College begins today, and with it comes the opening of the Cabrillo Gallery’s latest exhibit.

Pajaro Valley Unified School District officials offered teachers a one-time payment of $3,200 in lieu of a raise, as contract negotiations resumed Thursday.

Watsonville will get a new, but familiar, face as its next mayor Tuesday.