Watsonville News

A mountain lion is chased up a tree in downtown Palo Alto. Another one is shot after mauling a Chihuahua at a mobile home park outside Watsonville.

By the time they turn 8, more than 50 percent of Watsonville public school students are obese or at risk of becoming so, a study says.

Carmina Eliason and Lucien Kubo hang a silkscreen by Juan Fuentes Saturday at the Pajaro Valley Gallery.

Boxer Carina Moreno clowns around with Bob the punching dummy at her gym on Freedom Boulevard in Watsonville Tuesday.

For the first time, the Go For Health! annual forum will focus primarily on Watsonville.

The old Watsonville Public Library, at Union and Trafton streets, is slated for demolition to make way for a new Industrial Technology Education Center for Cabrillo College in downtown Watsonville.

Elm Street resident Joe Ortiz thinks his neighborhood has gone downhill in the past four years, that pride people felt in their homes is evaporating and gang activity is picking up.

Watsonville firefighter Bob Warrick attacks a fire inside a utility room at 318 Carey Ave.

WATSONVILLE, Calif., July 16 CA-GVA-Names WATSONVILLE, Calif. , /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Granite Construction Incorporated has announced the appointment of Laurel Krzeminski as Vice President and Corporate ...

Several windows were smashed and pieces of furniture were overturned at Aptos High School early Monday.

It was a wild night at the Ocean Speedway in Watsonville . Hundreds of faithful gathered to watch almost 50 drivers battle for points and pride in the Golden State Challenge Series.

What's a teacher to do when she wants to start an after-school reading program, but lacks the funds? When Vicki Hallof was faced with that dilemma, she reached out to the community, penning 200 letters to ...

A mountain lion is chased up a tree in downtown Palo Alto. Another one is shot after mauling a Chihuahua at a Watsonville mobile home park.

Irrigators and anyone curious about weather conditions and ways to conserve water can consult data that are now posted online from a newly activated weather station at the Buena Vista Landfill.

A Watsonville woman under investigation in Monterey County for allegedly duping dozens of defaulting homeowners out of thousands of dollars has been jailed in Santa Cruz County for unrelated grand theft ...

Tony Gomez, who ran against Edward Din for Watsonville City Council in 2006, looks like he will be back running against Din this year.

Sheriff's arrests Under the influence of a controlled substance Mario Cardoso, 22, of Gilroy, 11 p.m. Monday, near Pacheco Pass Highway and Frazier Lake Road.

On July 11th, about 30 people, brought together by Youth Coalition Santa Cruz , the Resource Center for Nonviolence, and the Volunteer Center of Santa Cruz, displayed a series of radical and contemplative ...

Nearly 7 percent of Watsonville High School students dropped out in the 2006-07 school year, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by the state Department of Education.

A slaughterhouse owner already under investigation for improperly treating his animals was cited Monday for failing to provide a humane death for a goat he killed.