The private prison company CoreCivic has sold two of the largest immigration detention facilities in California to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a deal worth $1.5 billion, the company ...

Federal authorities have agreed to temporarily pause construction work on the apparent U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility taking shape in south Santa Clara County.

The impact of a detention center in Central or Northern California — and the likely ensuing dragnet — will not stay within its city or county boundary, warn immigrant rights advocates. A new ICE ...

Monterey County government’s nightmarish relationship with a particularly difficult landlord is finally coming to an end. County officials reached a settlement last week with the purportedly nonprofit ...

Protecting Salinas residents from federal surveillance overreach does not require a fight with the state or federal government. It requires our local leaders to use the authority they already have.

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 ...

Monterey Jazz Festival announces the first wave of headlining artists for the 63 rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival, September 25-27, 2020, including Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny Side-Eye, George Benson, ...

Cal State Monterey Bay is four years away from a carbon neutrality deadline, a goal for the CSUs that is meant to curb the climate crisis and promote sustainability. That goal will not be met. To be ...

A guest worker visa program widely used for agriculture in Salinas Valley that has been haunted by claims of abuse will see reforms with legislation currently pending in the U.S. Senate. The Farm ...

“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, ...

Our collection of first-person accounts of how COVID-19 and shelter-in-place orders around Monterey Bay are affecting us all. If you would like to share your thoughts about living under the sheltering ...