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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a family thing from the very beginning. Josue Chavarria was just 15 when he worked his very first shift at Toro Place Café, filling in as a dishwasher so big brother Hector could attend his ...

A guest worker visa program widely used for agriculture in Salinas Valley that has been haunted by claims of abuse will see reforms with legislation currently pending in the U.S. Senate. The Farm ...

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 ...

The laws governing political campaigns are so complicated that even campaign treasurers and the candidates themselves often have a hard time playing by the rules — if, that is, they actually want to ...

Marielle Argueza contributed to this report. SALINAS, Calif. — Yanely Martínez was at work in 2017 when she received a phone call from her son’s school in Greenfield. Victor, 10, was having a severe ...

EXTRA: San Francisco Chronicle weighs in with major package on Wellpath’s failings statewide. UPDATE: This article, posted a week ago, states that four inmates had died in the Monterey County Jail ...