In “Pedacitos/Little Pieces,” a compilation of bilingual stories and poems, actor Cristal González-Ávila forms a mosaic of her life, tracing her path from childhood innocence to the wisdom of ...

March 16, 2023 California’s new pesticide notification system aims to protect public health. Will it work? Community activists were instrumental in achieving the landmark program. But they worry it ...

February 13, 2022 Spreading the political wealth In Monterey County, the big money is going into the race for sheriff and for a North County supervisor's position ...

April 10, 2024 I’ve lost two people to suicide recently Their deaths are making me re-evaluate the concept of dying by your own hand ...

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 ...

Our July 2021 Young Voices Media Project was a hybrid of online and in-person learning. High school students from the Salinas Valley spent two weeks learning professional journalism and writing skills ...

| FEATURED by Claudia Meléndez Salinas Wouldn’t you know it? Monterey County is home to one of the country’s foremost experts in ethnic studies and multicultural education — and she happens to be a ...

September 25, 2022 First they came for the newspapers. Then for mobile home parks. The owners of the Monterey Herald and the Santa Cruz Sentinel walk away from unpaid bills as they amass personal ...

January 14, 2022 Nursing home under fire Special monitors sought to oversee Driftwood Health Care in Santa Cruz and 18 of sister operations in California on grounds of chronic understaffing, ...

To lend his campaign some gravitas, Bernal made a big deal of his 10-year plan for the department. Six-plus years later, it remains mostly that, a plan. According to his critics, including three ...

July 11, 2024 ‘We want our homeland back’ The Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation is closer than ever to getting some land returned ...

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