The pilot Rental Assistance Program is being offered as an alternative to the Rental Stabilization Ordinance that was repealed by the Salinas City Council in April. Subsequently, residents gathered 10 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lea la primera parte de la investigación sobre la salud y seguridad de los trabajadores agrícolas menores de edad en California. Esta investigación fue producido por Capital & Main, y la co-publicamos ...

Steve Berrnal, a South County deputy with no command experience, seemed like an extreme longshot when he threw his Stetson into the ring to run for Monterey County sheriff in 2014. He was up against ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As of press time Saturday, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits program, ideally in full by Monday but at a ...

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 ...