| FEATURES   By Dennis Taylor     In 2001, at the original Hartnell Street location of the Youth Arts Collective in Old Town ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This story is the second of “Adrift,” a three-part series by Environmental Health News and palabra, a multimedia platform of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, on ...

En la cocina de su casa rodante, Flor Alvarado escucha atentamente una reunión virtual y toma notas mientras Alexa y Alison, sus gemelas de siete años, juegan tranquilamente en la sala. Alvarado vive ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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, ...

Composer John Christopher Wineglass has earned a reputation on the Central Coast for writing and performing music that celebrates nature and people and offers reflections on times we are living ...

If you’ve ever sat around a fire, roasting marshmallows and telling stories, perhaps you can evoke a teeny bit of what Louise Miranda Ramirez wants to regain. There, under the stars that have seen the ...

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 ...

I bought my first international flight using AOL dial-up and a prepaid debit card. I traveled from San Jose International Airport to Vancouver, Canada for a 10-hour layover on my way to London’s ...

It’s not every day that an 11-year-old gets to play on stage with the globally renowned Los Tigres del Norte. Then again, Juan Carlos “Juanito” Aguilar Arrieta is not your regular 11-year-old. When he ...