Watsonville News

California Rural Legal Assistance, UC Santa Cruz and UC Hastings College of Law are launching a project in early January aimed at taking a "snapshot" of Santa Cruz County's low-wage workers.

In 1900, at age 10, Nick Borina left behind his family in Croatia to come to the U.S. accompanied only by neighbors from the poverty-stricken village of Osojnik.

It isn't often that a person can turn a hobby into a successful career. But that's exactly what Cindy Kaster, the president of Monterey Bay Wine Company and Vinvision Trucking, has been able to do.

The first playground in Monterey County specifically designed for children with disabilities celebrated its grand opening Sunday at Sherwood Park in Salinas.

Giggling children, dressed in their warmest coats, filled the Watsonville Plaza on Sunday for a holiday celebration that included snowballs and sliding around on the cold white stuff that was trucked in for the occasion.

Giggling children, dressed in their warmest coats, filled the Watsonville Plaza on Sunday for a holiday celebration that included snowballs and sliding around on the cold white stuff that was trucked in for the occasion.

While 16-year-old Rosalee Ramer's peers are just getting used to parallel parking and driving on the freeway, she's behind the wheels of a 10-ton truck - going over 30 foot jumps, crushing smaller cars and popping wheelies as the nation's youngest professional monster truck driver.

The Santa Cruz branch of the American Association of University Women plans its annual holiday luncheon at 11:30 a.m. Dec. 14 at Seascape Golf Course, 610 Clubhouse Drive.

WE BEGIN TONIGHT WITH A DEADLY HOUSE FIRE IN APTOS. ONE MAN WAS KILLED AFTER THE FIRE STARTED ON THE 97 HUNDRED BLOCK OF MONROE AVENUE JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT.

Though she's only 16 years old, Rosalee Ramer of Watsonville, California is already a successful monster truck driver .

The body of a man was found in the aftermath of a fire that destroyed a three-story home on the 9700 block of Monroe Avenue on Saturday morning, officials with Aptos/La Selva Fire said.

The train is its second year of operation. Last year, the holiday train operated from Santa Cruz to Davenport.

With paint speckled on his jeans and staining his hands, Paul De Worken steps back from the side of a garage to look a large sunflower he finished painting.

About 6:40 p.m., the suspect entered a Lomeli Communications on 302 E. Lake Ave. and demanded money from an employee, said Watsonville Cpl.

December 6, 2013 As we head into the heart of the holiday season, many of us will be busy sending greeting cards and sharing family photos via various social media sites.

And so it's understandable that -- behind the scenes -- some senior managers and department heads really don't have a problem with the "bum's rush" approach that Fresno-based Municipal Auditing Services is taking in its efforts to find scofflaws operating a business but yet don't have a city business license.

Before Robyn Pearson took her son, Ben, to school Wednesday morning, she snapped a photo of him dressed in a ski jacket and wearing mittens.

Cortez Street resident Mike Crivello shot this photo with his phone as Central Fire firefighters arrive at a fire in a garage on his street Thursday afternoon.

A 23-year-old Watsonville man accused of shooting his uncle in an office of a used car lot has been extradited to Mexico on a separate warrant, authorities said Thursday.

Police, school and nonprofit leaders will kick off a two-year program in January to try to keep more children and teens out of gangs.