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A court ruling says Watsonville broke state law by approving housing near the municipal airport without first adopting mandatory airport safety standards into its General Plan.

Hundreds of teachers, staff and students packed a Watsonville school board meeting to protest planned layoffs in Pajaro Valley Unified School District, delivering a petition with more than 1,000 signatures and calling on trustees to “put students first.”

Students at Watsonville High School organized a large walkout protest Tuesday as part of a nationwide movement opposing Immigration and Customs Enforcement sweeps and other federal policies.

Santa Cruz County named Nicole Coburn as its chief executive officer, just over three months after Carlos Palacios announced his retirement.

Officials and transportation experts have launched Week Without Driving, a campaign to get people to rethink how they traverse the roadways.

For years, young people experiencing a mental health crisis were taken to distant facilities, crowded emergency rooms or an adult psychiatric ward.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors unanimously supported prohibiting the retail sale of nitrous oxide for recreational use.

Agency Director Mark Strudley said that homeless services advocates are working to find places for the evicted people to go...