This Tuesday, Jan. 6, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors will decide how to proceed with a proposed mental health facility for Salinas’ Creekbridge neighborhood. Dubbed the Mental Health ...

Two years later, he was riveted again by a live news bulletin from Salinas, California, where César Chávez — another icon of nonviolent social change — had been taken to the Monterey County Jail for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read part two of the investigation: Child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides amid lax enforcement. This investigation was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published here with permission. The ...

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 ...