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The Salinas Police Department’s Violence Suppression Unit is back on the streets.The first day for the fully operating unit was already a busy…

A three month, 17-mile resurfacing project is taking place on Highway 236 near Boulder Creek between Pine Street and Old Mill Road and began Monday,…

Three people are behind bars after a burglary led to a pursuit Thursday in Salinas. Police say it all started in the 400-block of Tyler Street, when…

UPDATE 9/16/16 1:33 AM: According to the Salinas Police Department, officers originally responded to Steinbeck Library for a report of a man with a…

La Oficina del Fiscal del Condado de Monterey dijo que un jue rechaz la peticin de reducir la fianza del Concejal de Salinas Jos Castaeda. Castaeda…

La Unidad Antiviolencia el Departamento de Polica de Salinas recin reactivada est de regreso en las calles. De acuerdo a un sargento de polica, la…

Seaside man Salvador Perez, 36, was sentenced to 5 years in state prison for attempting to kidnap a 10-year-old boy from a fast food restaurant,…

Latinos de la Costa Central estn siendo reconocidos por su trabajo y esfuerzo que contribuyen a nuestra comunidad. La red de latinos del condado de…

Monterey County District Attorney Dean Flippo announced that Salinas mom Melissa Abbey, 35, was ordered to pay $15,125 in restitution to the state as…

Officials with the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said that a judge denied Salinas councilman Jose Castaneda’s request for a…

UPDATE 9/15/16 11:57 PM: Officers said two cars crashed when one turned in front of the other on San Miguel Canyon. Both drivers were taken to the…

Update 9/15/2016 10:33 AM: Capitola Police officials announced that the shutdown portion of Wharf Road has been reopened. Previous story: The…

Morgan Hill police said they arrested Felipe Gonzales-Solano, 62, for child molestation on Monday. Officer said they served a search warrant at the…

An outpouring of community support continues this week as an image of a man pushing an ice cream cart through Salinas is shared on social media.…

Letters from a group trying to get people to register to vote is causing some confusion across California and here on the Central Coast. The Voter…

Latinos make up the largest ethnic group in California. However Latino students still lag behind other groups when it comes to education. This week…

UPDATE 9/14/16 6:31PM: The Santa Cruz County Fair kicked off today and local political groups are taking advantage of the crowd. Both the Democratic…

The south Salinas community came together tonight to talk about making their neighborhood’s safer at an end-of-summer barbecue. This comes…

A 25-year-old Salinas man is recovering, after being shot in the arm during an armed robbery. It happened on Wednesday just before midnight at the…

A 66-year-old man is battling life-threatening injuries after being hit by a car in Watsonville. Police were dispatched to the area of Walker Street…

El Jefe de Polica de Salinas se estar jubilando en unas cuantas semanas y funcionarios de la ciudad dicen que estn ms cerca de elegir su reemplazo.…

Permitir que inmigrantes indocumentados compren seguro mdico en el mercado de salud estatal, esa es la intencin del estado de California. De ser la…

Funcionarios escolares del Condado de Monterey estn abordando la brecha acadmica de estudiantes hispanos. Segn estadsticas, en los ltimos 20 aos la…

A female was a victim of a strong-arm robbery Monday in the 800 block of Grace Street, according to Monterey Police. Officers said the victim was hit…

UPDATE 9/14/16 3:27 PM: The Salinas City Council honored Victor Worden at its meeting Tuesday night. Worden helped police find a stolen car with a…

—The mother of a 10-year-old girl found dead and dismembered in her New Mexico home told police that she sought men online to sexually assault her…

UPDATE 9/13/2016 6:30 PM: On Tuesday, Salinas Police Chief Kelly McMillin updated the City Council on the Collaborative Reform Initiative for…

Monterey County is holding off on expanding commercial medical marijuana cultivation rules to allow outdoor grows. Currently, only indoor medical…

Thousands of Californians have drinking water systems with illegal levels of arsenic. That’s what an environmental watchdog group said in a new…

The Santa Cruz County Fair kicks off today (Wednesday) at 12:00 p.m. This year’s theme is Cows, Plows and Wows. Growing year to year,…

Council members voted six to one to pass the three-year contract through the end of 2018. The city is projected to put in almost 12 million dollars…

UPDATE 9/13/2016 4:51 PM: An attorney representing Watsonville Lieutenant Saul Gonzalez issued a statement Tuesday afternoon saying the city hired an…

Drivers can expect delays on Highway 68 in Monterey this week as crews remove dead trees near the Community Hospital of Monterey Peninsula. Caltrans…

A Santa Cruz mom and her baby are missing and police are looking for them. Officers said Alice Wieland, 37, and Joan Wieland, 15-months-old,…

Miles de campesinos de la Costa Central reciben con gran ilusin una noticia histrica. El gobernador de California, Jerry Brown, aprob la ley AB-1066…

A Hollister man is accused of stabbing and slashing ten American flags on 9/11. Hollister police said the vandalized flags were displayed along San…

Santa Cruz County has roughly $7 million in federal funds to spend on transportation projects. The County is asking residents how they’d like…

UC Santa Cruz didn’t make it into the top 10 public national universities like some other UC campuses, but it did come in at No. 30 in the…

Fueled by drugs, the town that never sleeps. “I mean it slows down later, but pretty much up all night,” said Salinas Officer Jeff…

The City of Santa Cruz is working to clean up the San Lorenzo Riverwalk. Police presence along the river has been increased and new signs prohibit…

Governor Brown signed legislation that will give California farm workers something they’ve wanted for a long time on Monday. In less than three…

UPDATE 9/11/16 9:22 PM: More than two dozen people have decided to stay and protect the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center despite an evacuation order…

UPDATE 9/12/2016 6:15 PM: Community members are claiming a small victory after they say their repeated calls to reschedule a pesticide application…

A change in management doesn’t mean a change in strategy. The California Inter-Agency Management Team is taking over command of the Soberanes…

The Marina Police Department is holding a DUI checkpoint this week. According to the department, officers will be looking for DUI drivers within city…

It started with loud music coming from a vehicle near 7 th Avenue and Capitola Road in Live Oak. It ended with four felony arrests. The Santa Cruz…

UPDATE 9/12/16 3:42 PM: The Monterey County Sheriff’s Office released the identity Monday of a man whose body was discovered floating in…

UPDATE 9/12/16 1:40 PM: A Santa Cruz man was killed Monday morning when he crashed into a garbage truck on East Cliff Drive near Prospect Street.…

Every kindergarten student in Salinas will soon have a library card of their very own. The Salinas Public Library announced Monday it will distribute…

Farmworkers in the nation’s largest agricultural state will be entitled to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers under a new law.…