As the family settled in Salinas, Gómez said they were clear about one priority: giving back. Tradición Por Siempre grew from that impulse — a desire to bring cultural celebrations to a community that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It was a family thing from the very beginning. Josue Chavarria was just 15 when he worked his very first shift at Toro Place Café, filling in as a dishwasher so big brother Hector could attend his ...

This commentary was co-published with CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Univision and Telemundo were constantly on in Suzanne García’s childhood home in Santa Ana. For immigrant families like ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited storm-battered Pájaro today, touring flooded areas in a high-water rescue vehicle provided by the California National Guard, and later speaking out at a press ...

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 ...

Out of the darkness on a country road in Southern Monterey County that meanders on and off Fort Hunter Liggett, a white truck suddenly trailed María Guadalupe Orozco, a young woman driving alone on a ...

Hundreds of thousands of undocumented farmworkers could see a new path to legalization under the Farm Workforce Modernization Act, a bipartisan bill presented in the House Judiciary Committee this ...

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 ...