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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The first Feast of Lanterns celebration in Pacific Grove was a colorful event held on July 22, 1905. People of all ages and cultures gathered — residents from the bustling Chinatown at Alones Point ...

“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, ...

The news that the Pájaro River overflowed its levee on Saturday, at about midnight, is really nothing new. This isn’t the first time the river has run amok, inundating the town of Pájaro and causing ...

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 ...

This week, Voices newsletter editor Charlotte West talks to Ginger Shulick Porcella, executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, about the “Princes of Surf” exhibition, currently on ...