Congressman Panetta announces farmworker aid
ROYAL OAKS—Congressman Jimmy Panetta was on the Central Coast Thursday, touting two pandemic assistance programs he helped pass that will benefit agriculture workers and...
PV Arts’ annual Members Exhibition opens Jan. 18
Every year, local arts organization Pajaro Valley Arts (PVA) hosts an annual Members Exhibit, where its members have the chance to showcase their artwork...
Photo: Holiday tree delivered to Watsonville City Plaza
A crew from Auto Care Towing of Watsonville hoists a 30-foot Aptos Blue pine tree into the Watsonville City Plaza Wednesday morning with an...
Corpus Christi celebrated in Watsonville
Volunteer workers place colored sawdust to create a path in the parking lot of St. Patrick's Church on Thursday.
High-rise gunman kills 59 in Las Vegas
The rapid-fire popping sounded like firecrackers at first, and many in the crowd of 22,000 country music fans didn't understand what was happening when the band stopped playing and singer Jason Aldean bolted off the stage.
Watsonville searching for answers to crippling housing crunch
WATSONVILLE — Saul Ruiz never thought he would have to leave Watsonville.
A 1999 Watsonville High School graduate, Ruiz was just settling into his “dream job”...
Pajaro students get history lesson of a ‘lifetime’
SAN FRANCISCO—The Orpheum Theater in San Francisco was abuzz with excitement Wednesday afternoon as 1,500 eighth-graders from North Monterey County settled in to experience...
CHP conducts crosswalk sting
California Highway Patrol officers stationed at three locations in mid-county Wednesday wrote out 34 citations to motorists who did not stop for a pedestrian in a crosswalk.
New mural graces Municipal Airport
A new mural is in town. The mammoth colorful piece, depicting all local youths and adults standing in front of a Cessna 172, hangs above a sign, “Kids Fly Free,” a program offered to young people ages 8-17, by the Experimental Aircraft Association.
Pajaro Valley Arts, others receive federal grants
Congressman Jimmy Panetta (D-Calif.), announced Monday that five Central Coast arts programs received federal grants totaling $115,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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...



















