In light of increased community fears about possible immigration enforcement actions in the Central Coast, civic leaders and elected officials recently spoke outside the Monterey County Government ...

Many in the Salinas community suspected something was wrong with MILPA following the August 2018 beating of a 14-year-old boy facilitated by the nonprofit’s community liaison. Now, with the release of ...

Alvarado lives in Bakersfield, at the bottom of California’s sweltering San Joaquin Valley, where it’s not uncommon for temperatures to reach triple digits. The air conditioner is humming trying to ...

Many who don’t live in supervisorial District 2 probably don’t think they care about who represents that territory, mostly north Monterey County. But that person will make many decisions affecting you ...

In court filings, Alden admitted it stopped paying rent for the Tower Suite in April 2020, and it vacated the premises before Jan. 15, 2021, after SL Green sent a notice of lease cancellation. SL ...

Monitors would be assigned to nursing homes operated by Mariner Health Care, one of the nation’s largest nursing home chains. In the past two decades, Mariner has been the subject of numerous ...

UPDATE: This article, posted a week ago, states that four inmates had died in the Monterey County Jail this year, the most recent in June. But, unknown to Voices, another inmate was found unresponsive ...

As their time on social media increases, teens are becoming more likely to develop a negative body image. According to an article from phys.org on young peoples’ body image and social media, “Visual ...

In some instances, the Making an Exoneree students’ work can even help pave the way to freedom. Since 2018, five wrongfully convicted men came home after participating in the course, including Kenneth ...

Despite being well practiced in running this program by now, we weren’t sure what to expect for 4th annual Young Voices Media Project. COVID-19 continued to complicate everything. But distance ...

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

Increase support for the gang task force. Dramatically increase the number of deputies working on investigations. Establish a violent crimes unit … (I)t will be staffed by several investigators who ...