Nick Sestanovich

The city of Watsonville will hold a holiday event Dec. 14. Noche de Brillo — Spanish for “night of sparkle” — will revive some longtime holiday traditions, including a Christmas-themed …

WATSONVILLE — Following a public hearing, the Watsonville City Council upheld staff’s recommendation Tuesday to abate a vacant lot along Airport Boulevard that had been declared a nuisa…

Alumni take reins of Scotts Valley High’s production of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’

An unsanctioned homeless encampment that currently houses between 20 and 40 people along Corralitos Creek on Airport Boulevard will go before the Watsonville City Council for a public hearing Tuesd…

SANTA CRUZ — Having grown up in Kolkata, India, author Megha Majumdar said she has seen the impacts of climate change firsthand, and she has continued to monitor those impacts even as she mov…

SANTA CRUZ — The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is synonymous with summer for a lot of people, but it offers activities for families year-round. That remains evident as the holiday season nears c…

SANTA CRUZ — Many might not immediately associate Sherlock Holmes with botanist Alice Eastwood, but to Santa Cruz author Peggy Townsend, there are a lot of parallels between detectives and sc…

WATSONVILLE — Nearly two weeks after the Watsonville City Council narrowly voted to revoke its agreement regulating the use of local unions in construction projects, the matter returned in a …

SANTA CRUZ — One man was injured after falling an 80-foot height from a redwood tree outside UC Santa Cruz while another man was rescued from the same tree Saturday evening. Cecile Juliette, …

CAPITOLA — Rose Filicetti — a Capitola resident whose decades of service included serving as a Santa Cruz County Board of Education trustee, field representative for local politicians and mos…