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Heavy rains drenched the Central Coast Wednesday night and into Thursday. The storm, out of the Gulf of Alaska, is just a fraction of a series of storms slated to visit the region.

The City of Watsonville announced its recent award of $2.3 million in grant funding for transportation projects by the Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission at its Dec. 7 meeting.

Hundreds of people marched from Aptos Village Park to the State Park freeway overpass and back Saturday morning to protest gun violence.

In a ceremony that drew nearly 100 people on Friday afternoon, Watsonville Fire Department and Central Fire Protection District welcomed their newest members in Twin Lakes Church’s Monscke Hall.

More than 100 people packed the Watsonville City Council Chambers Wednesday to ask the Pajaro Valley Unified School District to approve a new charter school, which if successful would open in the fall 2019 school year.

Two weeks after Hope Thrift announced it would be moving into the former Orchard Supply Hardware, city officials said Friday that Harbor Freight Tools will be sharing the building.

Hospital workers on Saturday began gathering signatures for an initiative they say would “rein in” costs at Watsonville Community Hospital.

At peak times, more than half of downtown Watsonville’s 3,000-plus parking spots are empty.

A major storm system known as an atmospheric river is expected to hit California late Tuesday morning, deluging the lowlands and dumping as much as four feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains.