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 ...

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 delay is ...

In 2001, at the original Hartnell Street location of the Youth Arts Collective in Old Town Monterey, Marcia Perry glanced through the front window and noticed a “square peg.” The teenager staring ...

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 ...

Fifty-two years later, it’s all stories and lies spread by folks with faulty memories or addled minds. True or not, the stories are usually a lot of fun. And, let’s face it, this is The Who we’re ...

I chose as the topic of my first story the struggles of local farmworkers during the age of COVID-19. What inspired me to write about this are my parents, who both work for produce companies and face ...

EXTRA: San Francisco Chronicle weighs in with major package on Wellpath’s failings statewide. UPDATE: This article, posted a week ago, states that four inmates had died in the Monterey County Jail ...

The news that the Pájaro River overflowed its levee on Saturday, at about midnight, is really nothing new. This isn’t the first time the river has run amok, inundating the town of Pájaro and causing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...