The City of Watsonville has chosen Corey Schaefer, a 27-year fire department veteran, as its next chief, following the ...

The new downtown expansion district, an affordable housing measure and a rail-trail compromise all came to fruition in 2025. Now, Fred Keeley, Santa Cruz’s first four-year elected mayor, looks to his ...

New Pajaro Valley Unified School District board president Carol Turley’s first meeting in the role was marked by frequent interruptions of fellow trustees and a stricter enforcement of agenda limits, ...

As the first part of Soquel Drive’s major makeover heads toward completion, Santa Cruz County is seeking a consultant to manage the next phase of the project and get pre-construction work sorted out ...

California State University Monterey Bay was the only campus in the 22-school CSU system to meet all six goals of the system’s decadelong Graduation Initiative 2025. The campus led the state in ...

OPINION: Science has long warned that organophosphate pesticides damage developing brains, especially in pregnant women and children, writes local activist Kathleen Kilpatrick. Yet the Monterey Bay ...

For more than 30 years, science has warned that organophosphate pesticides damage developing brains, especially in pregnant women and children, writes local activist and retired nurse. Yet the ...

Powerful Christmas Day winds gusting up to 114 mph severely damaged UC Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, forcing the nearly ...

Starting in 2025, California tortillas will contain folic acid to help prevent birth defects — a change aimed at closing a ...

Watsonville activist Omar Dieguez discusses the impact of his monthlong hunger strike against pesticide applications near schools in the Pajaro Valley and also shares more details on his work to ...

Scotts Valley High School shortstop-turned-pitcher Kaleb Wing spent the summer and early fall playing rookie ball in Arizona and learning from older mentors. Now, he’s ready to take on spring training ...

In vitro fertilization costs thousands of dollars and is often too expensive for many people struggling to conceive. A new California law aims to help change that.