Díaz   Renante Evangelista was waiting for a package last year when he got a text message saying he needed to pay for said ...

Once a week, Rena Salamacha meets with her executive team inside the Mee Memorial Healthcare System’s medical center in King City to figure out how to stretch a dollar. Never in the nearly six years ...

For Luis Valdez, the moment that we’re living in the United States has a lot of similarities to the struggle to ban the short-handled hoe that broke the backs of thousands of farmworkers earlier this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Randall Smith, co-founder of the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, is infamous for two things: gutting local newspapers and a voracious acquisition of pricey real estate. Although he recently sold off ...

“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, ...

Everybody’s heard the unsettling bit about the razor-blade-spiked Halloween apple. But for three decades, Joel Best, a sociologist at the University of Delaware, has been a calm, consistent voice of ...

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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 ...