Northern California’s most notorious prison and street gang has infiltrated a nationally known Salinas nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing youth leaders. Public records and extensive ...

Note: I googled Royal Calkins and Christmas poem and AI responded almost accurately: Royal Calkins, a semi-retired journalist and former editor of the Monterey Herald, is known for his contributions ...

Hundreds of thousands of times each year in California, farmers and their contractors spray pesticides on fields and orchards in the state’s agricultural heartlands. Farmworkers young and old can be ...

Editor’s note: This story is the second of “Adrift,” a three-part series by Environmental Health News and palabra, a multimedia platform of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, on ...

CORRECTION: This article initially reported incorrectly that contractor Don Chapin has endorsed Salinas Mayor Kimbley Craig’s campaign for the District 3 Board of Supervisors seat. The conventional ...

Monterey County officials have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement in the latest in a series of jail death lawsuits, this one involving a schizophrenic inmate who died from consuming a huge amount of ...

El primer recuerdo que Antonio Alcántara tiene de la Virgen de Guadalupe es el viaje de siete horas en autobús desde Ocotlán de Morelos, Oaxaca, hasta la Ciudad de México. Allí, siendo un niño de ocho ...

After the 2018 deportation of Neofita Valerio-Silva, a Grover Beach homeowner and mother of three U.S.-born children, California state Assemblymember Dawn Addis realized the significance of providing ...

This Tuesday, Jan. 6, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors will decide how to proceed with a proposed mental health facility for Salinas’ Creekbridge neighborhood. Dubbed the Mental Health ...

Lyde Hussey, recently remarried a dozen years ago, took her husband to visit her old home in south Chicago. It was a chance to reconnect with her past, to revisit the house that was her cozy home as a ...

As of press time Saturday, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits program, ideally in full by Monday but at a ...

The small crowd carrying signs outside the county courthouse this week was classic funky Santa Cruz, folks milling about in T-shirts emblazoned with rasta and LGBTQ-themed logos, tie-dye and boho ...