Legal advocates are warning the public about a multistate scam targeting the immigrant community, with some victims losing as much as $30,000.

More than 150 people gathered Feb. 28 at Pinto Lake City Park to share ideas and information about a proposed Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) a few blocks away on Minto Road in Watsonville.

Jackie Cano has been an unstoppable force for the Watsonville girls’ soccer team since the Central Coast Section playoffs ...

About 150 students attended the 2026 Santa Cruz County Youth Civics Summit at Cabrillo College in Aptos, where they learned ...

Several dozen Pajaro Valley Unified School District teachers and staff were joined by community supporters early Tuesday morning at The Towers in Watsonville to rally against teacher layoffs that were ...

The word pressure had no meaning for Watsonville junior Jesus Contreras-Barboza during last weekend’s Central Coast Section Division II boys soccer championship game.

Law enforcement officials in Monterey County rescued a possibly suicidal man who was threatening to jump off the  San Miguel ...

A man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly brandished an altered replica firearm in Watsonville. Eduardo Lopez, 32, was ...

For more than 50 years, our community has demonstrated what’s possible when neighbors care for one another. Through floods, emergencies, economic downturns and a global pandemic, our Santa Cruz County ...

A late-night fire destroyed a truck at the Restore, a thrift shop in downtown Watsonville run by Habitat for Humanity ...

Rep. Jimmy Panetta told a group of business and tourism officials on Thursday that he plans to fight a proposal by the Trump administration to drill for oil off the California coast.