Watsonville

The Estrada Fire, which sparked in south Santa Cruz County when a prescribed burn jumped its containment lines Friday, is now 25 percent contained. Christie Smith reports.

Officials issued evacuation orders and warnings after a fire that started as prescribed burn jumped its containment line in Santa Cruz County Friday afternoon. Sergio Quintana and Rob Mayeda report.

Officials have issued evacuation orders and warnings after a fire that started as prescribed burn jumped its containment line in Santa Cruz County Friday afternoon.

Officials issued evacuation orders and warnings after a fire that started as a prescribed burn spread out of control and jumped its containment line in Santa Cruz County Friday afternoon. The fire is currently 10% contained.

A preliminary 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck near Gilroy early Friday morning, according to the United States Geological Survey.

A coronavirus outbreak at a skilled nursing facility on California’s central coast has killed nine people and infected more than 60 residents and staff, health officials said Wednesday.

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.

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.