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 ...

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 ...

As the family settled in Salinas, Gómez said they were clear about one priority: giving back. Tradición Por Siempre grew from that impulse — a desire to bring cultural celebrations to a community that ...

Our July 2019 Young Voices Media Project was held in Gonzales, California, where nine high school students from the Salinas Valley spent two weeks learning professional journalism and writing skills.

Our collection of first-person accounts of how COVID-19 and shelter-in-place orders around Monterey Bay are affecting us all. If you would like to share your thoughts about living under the sheltering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...