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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Pepe Serna, there are no “extras” in life. Every role he’s had in his 75-year career as an actor has been an important one. Be it the shadow boxer who jumped in the ring when he was only 3 years ...

A task force of state and local prosecutors is asking a judge to order special monitors to oversee Driftwood Healthcare nursing home in Santa Cruz and 18 of its sister operations in California on ...

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 ...

Expect the philosophical and Biblical as well as the political and practical when the Salinas City Council on Tuesday evening takes up a council-driven plan to help the best connected church in town ...

“There was a level of emotional impact from this project that I’ve never really received from any of the other work that I’ve done,” said film student Keith Gelderloos. When someone calls from prison, ...

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 ...

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 ...