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By Abigail Acosta, Special to the Pajaronian WATSONVILLE—The City of Watsonville is hoping recent additions to its Cannabis Equity Program will spark a time of...

Drive for Schools raised $702,000 for local schools this year.

WATSONVILLE—After more than seven decades in business, Yamashita Market—Santa Cruz County’s only store dedicated to Asian cooking supplies—is set to close its doors for...

WATSONVILLE—A group of about 30 nurses at Watsonville Community Hospital held a demonstration Wednesday asking that management keep nurse-to-patient ratios at their present level. The...

Hundreds gathered in Romo Park in Watsonville Monday for the annual Monterey Bay Central Labor Council (MBCLC) Labor Day Picnic, an event that draws workers and politicians from across the county.

The 25th annual Peace and Unity March filed through Watsonville Sunday during a break in stormy weather to mark the gang-related deaths of more than 90 people both in Watsonville and Salinas.

APTOS—The FBI on June 22 was at the Aptos home of a man with ties to New York attorney Rudy Giuliani for a “court-authorized...

The seventh annual Summer Scamper event will be held on Sunday at the Stanford University campus, with the intent to raise money for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and child health care programs at Stanford University School of Medicine.

This story has been updated from a previous version. A cascading wave of fiscal challenges such as the election of President Donald Trump, his One...