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After years of holding its annual Labor Day barbecue in a small redwood park in north Santa Cruz, the Monterey Bay Central Labor Council moved the event to downtown Watsonville on Monday.

Hundreds of people attended the third-annual Wings Over Watsonville festival on Saturday, despite temperatures on the tarmac that topped 110 degrees.

The final Capitola Begonia Festival wrapped up Monday with the traditional Fishing Derby on the Capitola Wharf. The event, which peaks with the Nautical Parade on Sunday, has been a huge draw for crowds of all ages for the last 65 years.

After the monthly company-wide meeting at West Marine on Thursday, and during the picnic that normally follows in the summer months, the employees got a chance to have a little extra fun at their bosses’ expense.

A group of city and county leaders gathered in an Atkinson Lane construction zone Thursday, standing on a foundation for a future apartment complex to raise the first wall.

An excessive heat warning continues through the region, with temperatures bumping up above 100 degrees in many inland areas.

Dole Berry Co. at 480 West Beach St. is closing its operations in Watsonville, the company confirmed Wednesday.

Thousands of students returned to Cabrillo College’s Aptos and Watsonville campuses for the fall semester Monday, in numbers college officials estimate could top 10,400.

Concerned about speeding on your street? Get together with your neighbors and form a neighborhood traffic group, city officials advise.

A new service in Santa Cruz, San Benito and Monterey counties allows people to contact 911 centers via text message.