The Pajaro Valley Health Care District board of directors voted 3-2 to close its maternity services, which includes labor and delivery, and its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The decision does ...

Joe Clarke and Tory Del Favero for Capitola City Council By Lookout Editorial Board. Capitola has five good candidates competing for three city council seats, but ...

Dolores Huerta, the pioneering labor leader and co-founder of United Farm Workers, inspired generations of activists across Santa Cruz County. Local leaders from Watsonville to Santa Cruz remember her ...

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation's fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase “Sí, se puede!” that became a widespread ...

The Burning Ember opens this week in downtown Santa Cruz, stocking romance and romantasy. Trailside Books is set to follow next month in Aptos Village, with shelves built around adventure, children’s ...

The Santa Cruz County Planning Department has formally approved a zoning application on Oct. 26, for a project at 2934 East Cliff Dr. The approved project is ...

Watsonville Community Hospital is considering closing its maternity and newborn care units, raising concerns among doctors and nurses about the risks to mothers and babies. Dr. Madhu Raghavan, a ...

Wednesday news for Watsonville and Pajaro.

Two new indie bookstores open: The Burning Ember in Santa Cruz (romance, romantasy) and Trailside Books in Aptos Village (adventure, children’s, local history) starting next month.

Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation’s fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase “Sí, se puede!” that became a widespread ...

The southbound Highway 1 off-ramp at Bay Avenue is scheduled to be closed for approximately four months as crews reconstruct the ramp as part of the bus-on-shoulder facility. The closure began on Aug.

Two new indie bookstores open: The Burning Ember (romance/romantasy) in downtown Santa Cruz and Trailside Books (adventure, kids, local history) in Aptos Village. We checked with local police and ...