14+ hour, 2+ min ago   (207+ words) Santa Cruz Sentinel The dancers of Kalpulli Ehecacoatl bring color, spirit and a sense of community to Watsonville Sunday as they perform at Fiestas Patrias. A large crowd filled Main Street between West Beach and Second streets for the annual…...

21+ hour, 57+ min ago   (248+ words) September marks the beginning of the great summer-to-fall garden transition and, although most summer plants still have life left in them, many gardeners are turning their attention to the iconic chrysanthemum. The majority of mums sold in pre-planted containers at…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (536+ words) By ANNA WILDER, Associated Press/Report for America A California couple’s surrogate who refused their wishes to have an abortion has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a custody dispute over the 4-week-old child who was born with…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (386+ words) “Hopefully he’s going to lose the Senate. He’s going to lose Congress. I hope so, and hold him accountable,” Ford said. “But we’ll see how that goes. We aren’t going to interfere in the U.S. election.” Ford has emerged…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (207+ words) By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Election officials warn that it’s impossible to comply with those terms, especially with the first mail ballots arleady being sent out in Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The panel of three judges nominated by…...

4+ day, 35+ min ago   (610+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party’s sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise would likely cost…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (416+ words) By BILL BARROW and JAMIE STENGLE “This bizarre Republican midterm convention here can’t paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a potential 2028 presidential contender, said Wednesday morning. Trump organized the…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (745+ words) Re: “With new coaches, Cal, Stanford face pressure to win” (Page A1, Sept. 4). Jon Wilner’s Sept. 4 column on the pressures facing Cal and Stanford football fails to ask the fundamental question: Why are these elite academic institutions doing this? The concept…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (623+ words) WATSONVILLE — Although it has been eight years since she last served on the Watsonville City Council, Nancy Bilicich is far from finished. The longtime educator, who served on the council from 2009 to 2018 including a one-year stint as mayor, is running…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1191+ words) As first-of-their-kind festivities open Wednesday, Trump wants to stoke his core supporters’ enthusiasm by making Election Day on Nov. 3 all about himself — a referendum on his record at an event he conceived to help his party, even if he’s not…...