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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

And 10 months after the first Feast of Lanterns, most of Chinatown went up in flames. It was a suspicious fire, to be sure. The Pacific Improvement Company — a real estate and holding company created ...

Alden, as Voices readers may recall, owns — and is methodically extracting resources from — The Monterey Herald, The Santa Cruz Sentinel, The Mercury News, The Orange County Register and a great many ...

Making matters worse for the county government, which has been paying the legal fees for Moses and co-defendants Mark Caldwell and Archie Warren since 2018, the 2nd District Court of Appeal also ...

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 ...

Proponents of Measure Q, the parcel tax that failed at the polls in November, say it’s not enough to resolve all the local issues in the childcare industry. Two major issues are space and ...

Monterey, CA – 211 Monterey County is fully equipped to answer U.S. Census related questions. Monterey County residents can chat with a virtual assistant on 211 Monterey County website, text the short ...