Watsonville, CA

Mary Alta Mahoney Koyama, of Hardin, Montana, age "39" (82), passed away on the family farm on October 30, 2026. A "war baby," Mary was born on March 21, 1944, in Watsonville, California, to Charles Hirth Mahoney and Alta Frances…

On this episode of Talk of the Bay, host George Cadman speaks with longtime Watsonville Community Hospital nurses Roseanne Ferris and Tontz Pitchforth about the hospital’s financial crisis and the potential loss of essential healthcare services. Facing the prospect of closure within six to twelve months, the community-owned hospital is confronting difficult choices amid state […]

800 Births—What Happens When Your Hospital Is Full? If you plan to give birth in Santa Cruz, Salinas, Monterey or another Central Coast community, Watsonville Hospital belongs in your birth plan. Watsonville serves roughly 800 births annually. If labor and delivery closes, those births will still happen. Other hospitals would need enough nurses, obstetricians, midwives, […]

SALINAS VALLEY — Soledad and King City are working to keep pace in the Mission Division volleyball standings behind Robert Louis Stevenson and Alisal. King City is 6-2 behind the Pirates and Trojans with 3-0 wins over North County and Watsonville, and Soledad is 5-3 in the division with a loss to first-place Stevenson and […]

WATSONVILLE, Calif. (AP) — Long-time strawberry farmer Rod Koda has rows of plants on his California farm that are still producing fruit well after the harvest would typically end. The fields brimming with green near the Pacific Coast have produced nearly twice the amount of organic strawberries this year as other plots thanks to steam, […]

SALINAS VALLEY — The Soledad and King City high school volleyball teams fell to division-leading Robert Louis Stevenson and second-place Alisal, respectively, last week on the same day to drop into a third-place tie with 4-2 records. Soledad (11-2 overall) beat Watsonville by a 3-0 score last Tuesday at home and then lost 3-0 in […]