Santa Cruz County Local News: Local Governments

Over the next two decades, the city of Watsonville plans to add thousands of trees to its landscape, create a plan to take care of them and train crews of young people to aid in that effort.

Leaders of Santa Cruz Police and Santa Cruz Fire have a new $20 million training center in their long-term plans to replace outdated facilities inside and outside the city.

Construction of Scotts Valley Water District’s 1,500-foot-deep Sucinto Well is underway.

Unless California solves its housing crisis, the state will lose more congressional seats and could shift the political alignment of the whole country

Two new housing developments in Santa Cruz County are set to exceed local height limits and could be approved without public input, county officials said this week. 

The City of Watsonville has sent out a call to local artists to help create a mural for the new nature center coming to Ramsay Park.

Construction will begin in June on a 34-unit community of small temporary dwellings based at Westview Presbyterian Church in Watsonville, after the Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved agreements to build and manage the facility.

A bill from a member of the Legislature’s happiness committee would require schools to come up with homework policies that consider the strain on students.

When the Town Clock was dedicated in 1976, it represented Santa Cruzans’ hopes for the future and recalled memories of turn-of-the-century Pacific Avenue when trolleys lumbered by and the clock sat atop the Odd Fellows Building.