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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.

The RV campground at Pinto Lake City Park, closed since park manager Pat McQuade died in April, was scheduled to reopen Thursday.

Firefighters are urging the public to be vigilant about safe and defensible space around their homes, as winter rains have boosted vegetation growth to dangerous levels and as warmer weather encroaches.

The latest art exhibit, “Color!” at the Pajaro Valley Gallery, 37 Sudden St., is about to open.

Michael Watkins, who has been with the Santa Cruz County Office of Education for 37 years, and has served as its superintendent for more than a decade, will be retiring at the end of his third term in 2018.

A Santa Cruz County Superior Court judge said Monday that he will consider bail for the neurosurgeon accused of numerous sex crimes against children, but put off setting an amount until attorneys have reviewed his tax records.

Temperatures are starting to climb dramatically as a high-pressure system hovers over the region. With summer starting up Wednesday, a pattern of warm to hot days is on the map, depending if you live along the coast or inland.

The first day of summer was perhaps the best day for a group of students to learn how to capture and use the power of the sun.

On roughly 40 acres of farmland that overlooks Harkins Slough, which Stephen Pedersen, owner of High Ground Organics, says is “land that shall remain in use for agricultural use only,” students from Watsonville and Pajaro Valley high schools met Friday to