Pandemic-initiated emergency allotments from CalFresh end
A Santa Cruz County resident and Second Harvest Food Bank client who received $281 per month in CalFresh benefits for more than two years...
Watsonville teen is County Board of Education’s first student trustee
After decades of making decisions that affect the lives of students throughout Santa Cruz County, the County Board of Education on Thursday inaugurated its...
Spreading Christmas cheer
Hundreds of cars slowly filed through the annual Christmas Giveaway put on by Casa de la Cultura in Pajaro on Tuesday.
In collaboration with a...
Toys For Tots Santa Cruz County drive in high gear
Every year, a group of volunteers works to make sure that children in need have a toy to unwrap on Christmas day.
This behind-the-scenes work,...
Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93
Sandra Day O’Connor, the retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died Friday morning in Phoenix, Ariz. of complications related...
$2 million grant to fund youth mental health center in Watsonville
In a little more than a year, the Community Health Trust of Pajaro Valley will create a center where young people will be able...
Photographer documents California Indigenous groups
Local photographer and documentarian Kirti Bassendine will present her latest exhibition, “Contemporary Indigenous Voices of California's South Coast Range,” from Aug. 17-27 at the...
KSQD flooded
Sometime during the late-night hours Sunday, as hours-long rainfall pounded the Central Coast, water gushed through a telecommunications conduit leading into KSQD radio station,...
Honoring MLK: Hundreds attend annual march in Santa Cruz
Before hundreds of people began a march Monday morning in downtown Santa Cruz to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a solemn hush fell...
PVUSD trustees approve changes to art instruction
After delaying the discussion for two months, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved changes to the way its...
Aptos takes down Watsonville in battle of the ‘Black and Blue...
At one time in the teams’ long history, Aptos and Watsonville were nemesis on the gridiron as members of the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic...




















