Watsonville

The U.S. Geological Survey published 103 photographs from the aftermath of the Loma Prieta quake — named after the Loma Prieta peak, the earthquake’s epicenter in the Santa Cruz Mountains — on their website in 1999, hoping to give people a glimmer of the chaos and destruction that ultimately took 63 lives and closed the Bay Bridge for a month...

Pacific Gas & Electric began restoring power Thursday to some of the 120,000 people it intentionally blacked out to ease the risk of catastrophic wildfires.

PG&E continues to downsize the scope of its latest round of proactive power shutoffs as weather conditions improved Wednesday.

PG&E has downsized its power shutoff plan that was set to impact more than 300,000 customers across 25 counties in Northern California.

A 12-year-old Watsonville girl went missing Tuesday evening and police are asking for help finding her, police said.

A Watsonville man was arrested last week on suspicion of sex trafficking and physically abusing a female victim for over five years, the Santa Clara County sheriff’s office reported. He faces multiple felonies for human trafficking, pimping, pandering and kidnapping.

California growers are frustrated by an unusually wet spring that has delayed the planting of some crops like rice and damaged others including strawberries and wine grapes.

Two alleged gang members are in custody after Watsonville police responded to a shooting late Monday night and then saw the pair running from them.

Police in Watsonville are searching Saturday afternoon for an elderly man, suffering from dementia, who walked away from a care facility earlier in the day.

California Highway Patrol officers made an “equine stop” Sunday and pulled over a 49-year-old man suspected of riding a horse while intoxicated near Watsonville.

A 17-year-old alleged gang member believed to be sending threatening messages to a high school student was arrested Wednesday morning in Watsonville, police said.

A campground in Morgan Hill evacuated its guests Monday afternoon shortly after the nearby Uvas Reservoir reached capacity and began to spill over.

A fatal crash on Highway 17 in the Santa Cruz Mountains brought traffic to a halt during the height of the Thursday evening commute, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A while back we told you about a fire in San Jose’s Alum Rock Park. It revealed the remains of an unknown house from the early 1900s. After seeing our story, descendants of the original owners came forward. NBC Bay Area’s Joe Rosato Jr. shows us the link they’re providing to San Jose’s lost history.

Descendants of a prestigious San Jose farming family have come forward to offer their family’s history after watching a story on NBC Bay Area News about the discovery of the remains of a previously-unknown house in San Jose’s Alum Rock Park.

Santa Clara County prosecutors this week filed a $67 million lawsuit against a Watsonville mushroom grower, accusing it of dumping toxic wastewater into Bay Area waterways.

A $10,000 reward is being offered by the FBI for information leading to the arrest of a suspect who intentionally set a fire at a Planned Parenthood building in Watsonville.

A 50-year-old Watsonville man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly molesting a child at a day care center four years ago.

No injuries were reported Monday after a school bus struck a power pole in Santa Cruz County near Watsonville, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The U.S. Department of Justice has sent a letter to Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf seeking information about her city’s sanctuary policy.