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

My advocacy for mental health began in the pre-pandemic years, when I was just 8 years old and facing a deep depression that left me unable to eat and visibly frail. I am now a junior at Everett ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gonzales is rural heaven. I have loved my town all my life, with every inch of my being. I love the roaring wind that coaxes leaves from trees and makes hair fly, the mountains that loom over us so ...

I am a partner in the Monterey Abalone Co., which for the past 30 years has raised delicious and sustainable abalone on the Monterey waterfront, primarily for Central Coast and Bay Area restaurants.

Monterey County officials have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement in the latest in a series of jail death lawsuits, this one involving a schizophrenic inmate who died from consuming a huge amount of ...