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Santa Cruz County will join a task force focused on alleviating noise from jets flying over the central part of the county, the Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday.

Aptos Junior High School issued a “shelter in place” order Wednesday morning after school officials received a report that a student may be in possession of a dangerous “item,” Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Sgt. Brian Cleveland said.

More than 100 raspberry harvesters walked off the job Wednesday, protesting what they called unfair labor practices by Watsonville-based Premiere Raspberries LLC.

For the fifth year, farms throughout the Pajaro Valley will be open to the public for a day of family-friendly activities and tours.

A little more than two months after workers began construction of an off-road bicycling track in Pinto Lake County Park, 5-year-old Jacob Tapiz became one of the first to ride through the series of jumps, tight curves and small hills.

Traffic on southbound Highway 1 was snarled for several hours Tuesday morning after a dump truck overturned at the Buena Vista exit and struck a light pole.

The Watsonville City Council unanimously supported one of five transportation scenarios outlined in a recently-released study Wednesday.

In the two years since Michelle Rodriguez began her tenure as Pajaro Valley Unified School District superintendent, the district has boosted by 20 percent the numbers of first-graders who are able to decode and comprehend what they read.

A Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge ruled Thursday that there is enough evidence to send a former neurosurgeon and his female accomplices to trial on charges that they sexually abused both of the women’s children.

Part of Main Street in downtown Watsonville was blocked off Tuesday morning to make way for an annual holiday tradition.