Watsonville News

SEASIDE >> Maybe it's because her father set the example to always help somebody in need.

WATSONVILLE >> In fields surrounding Watsonville, hundreds of workers are picking strawberries.

The Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office Wednesday asked the public for help in finding an at-risk Watsonville man who was reported missing after being released from a behavioral health clinic.

Twenty five members of the California Conservation Corps from Watsonville and San Jose have been dispatched to the French Fire in Madera County to assist.

Members of the Watsonville chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League gathered at Seacliff with chapters throughout Northern California during a conference held in 1937 in Watsonville.

A 38-year-old Watsonville man is headed to prison for 15 years for attacking his wife on Christmas Day.

A California legislative delegation recently traveled to Central America to learn more about a child migrant crisis, and poses here with El Salvador Vice President Oscar Ortiz.

SANTA CRUZ >> A statewide bill that appears headed for passage would allow private security guards and other transit employees to issue tickets for bad behavior around Santa Cruz County transit stops and stations.

Simon Ndirangu of Kenya crosses the finish line to take first place in the 42nd annual Wharf to Wharf road race in Capitola on Sunday morning.

Shots were fired but no one was injured during a 7:15 p.m. confrontation on the 200 block of Sunnyhills Drive, Watsonville police Sgt.

Watsonville Municipal Airport General Manager Rayvon Williams checks out his gear before taking off Sunday on an Angel Flight.

Friday night, in the Thompson Boxing Promotions ' "Locked n' Loaded" main event at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario, CA, Carlos Carlson won a hard fought majority decision over Jose Cen-Torres and with the win, retains his WBC Latino Bantamweight Championship.

WATSONVILLE >> A 36-year-old Salinas man was arrested Saturday afternoon after several witnesses called police to report a man in a Lexus with a gun.

WATSONVILLE >> A 23-year-old Watsonville man was stabbed several times in his upper body just after midnight Sunday after an earlier car crash-related fight with the suspect.

An exhausted Santa Cruz Endurance runner Bob James stretches his body as he looks back at the Wharf to Wharf finish line in Capitola on Sunday after completing the six-mile run from Santa Cruz to Capitola.

"We've had this moisture coming up from the South , bring us higher humidity," said Steve Anderson , a meteorologist with the National Weather Service .

On Friday night, it was Oscar Godoy of Watsonville, CA going up against the longer, bigger, stronger Cecil McCalla from Baltimore, Maryland.

The 20th Annual Watsonville Strawberry Festival will take place 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Aug. 2 and 3 in historic downtown Watsonville around the City Plaza on Main, Peck and Union Streets.

The faith-based community on the Central Coast is asking for help to aid tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant children and their families crossing the border.

I heard echoes of what consumers are asking about fresh produce as grower Rod Koda fielded questions from bloggers touring his Watsonville, Calif., strawberry field .