Todd Guild

The former West Marine building at 500 Westridge Drive is the home of the South County Government Center. (Tarmo Hannula/Pajaronian file)

I write this column not particularly spiritually centered but deeply troubled. We are less than 70 days away from the most important midterm election in our lifetime, possibly as significant as elections in the time of Abraham Lincoln or Franklin D. Roosevelt.

About two dozen nurses and doctors rallied outside Watsonville Community Hospital Monday, calling on hospital administrators to reopen the neonatal intensive care unit that has been closed since July 10.

California lawmakers sent AB 1448 to Gov. Gavin Newsom, strengthening state safeguards against expanded federal offshore oil drilling.

Monterey County Sheriff’s investigators are searching for a 38-year-old man accused of sexually abusing and impregnating his teenage daughter, who is herse

An aerial view shows the progress of the Cabrillo College/UC Santa Cruz housing project, expected to open in about one year. (Cabrillo College)

Minto Road leading to the site of the proposed BESS facility is shown. (Tarmo Hannula/Pajaronian file)

Two candidates are seeking the Area 7 seat on the Pajaro Valley Unified School District Board of Trustees, representing La Selva Beach, Rio del Mar and adjacent Central Coast communities.

Pajaro Valley Unified School District Trustee Daniel Dodge Jr. is seeking a third term on the school board, facing a challenge from a recent district graduate who says the board needs a stronger connection to the students and employees affected by its decisions.

The California Highway Patrol has issued an Amber Alert for a 14-year-old girl connected to the investigation into the death of a newborn found near Watsonville last month.