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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the 2018 deportation of Neofita Valerio-Silva, a Grover Beach homeowner and mother of three U.S.-born children, California state Assemblymember Dawn Addis realized the significance of providing ...

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 ...

Note: I googled Royal Calkins and Christmas poem and AI responded almost accurately: Royal Calkins, a semi-retired journalist and former editor of the Monterey Herald, is known for his contributions ...

This investigation was produced by Capital & Main. It is co-published here with permission. California officials said they are launching new enforcement actions to protect underage farmworkers, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...