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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Out of the darkness on a country road in Southern Monterey County that meanders on and off Fort Hunter Liggett, a white truck suddenly trailed María Guadalupe Orozco, a young woman driving alone on a ...