Salinas Valley News Briefs | April 2, 2025
CHIEF SURVEY
SOLEDAD ā City of Soledad is conducting a community survey to help select the next chief of police. The survey is open now until April 4, and feedback is essential in guiding the City toward the right choice for the community. Survey links...
King City Police investigating Tuesday night shooting
KING CITY ā King City Police Department is asking for the communityās help in finding the suspects involved with a shooting Tuesday night.
At about 7 p.m. on Nov. 15, local officers responded to a report of multiple shots heard in the 500 block of...
Salinas Valley News Briefs | Oct. 22, 2025
RIBBON CUTTING
SALINAS ā Monterey County Sheriffās Office will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony to officially open the new Re-Entry Resource Center on Thursday, Oct. 23. The event begins at 9:30 a.m. at 1412 Natividad Road in Salinas and will be followed by a job and...
Salinas Valley News Briefs | Oct. 8, 2025
GOLDEN GRANTS
CENTRAL COAST ā McDonaldās owner/operators across the San Francisco Bay Area, Eureka and the Central Coast are now accepting applications for the 2025 Golden Grants, which will distribute a total of $55,000 to local educators and organizations. Now in its fourth year, the...
Jobless claims decline as coronavirus cases ease
WASHINGTON, D.C. ā New claims for unemployment fell last week, the government reported Thursday, the latest sign that the labor marketās recovery, however slow and unsteady, is continuing.
āThe numbers look encouraging on the face of it,ā said Gregory Daco, chief U.S. economist at Oxford...
King City volunteers clean up for āGhost Storiesā
KING CITY ā Monterey County Agricultural and Rural Life Museum President Steve Wilson and Board Member Raye Ann Houx recently led volunteers from Sun Street Centers in a cleanup of San Lorenzo Parkās āThe Pitā in preparation for MCARLMās Ghost Stories event this Saturday.
MCARLM...
King City cheerleaders qualify for nationals
KING CITY ā South County Skills Academy Lobos Cheerleaders from King City attended JAMZ Reload championship competition on Oct. 24 in Stockton, Calif.
Cheer teams from all over CaliforniaĀ competed with the chance to qualify for the JAMZ National competition in Las Vegas in January...
King City farm labor contractors receive suspended prison sentences for workersā compensation fraud
KING CITY ā Monterey County Judge Rafael Vasquez has sentenced King City residents and farm labor contractors Elias Perez Jr., 43, and Alejandra Perez, 40, to three years in prison for insurance fraud committed between 2013 and 2017.
Vasquez also suspended those prison sentences, placing...
Monterey County establishes hotline to report agricultural employee safety concerns
MONTEREY COUNTY ā Monterey County Agricultural Commissionerās Office has established a dedicated hotline to report agricultural concerns related to farmworker safety as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, wildfire smoke and the safe use of pesticides.
The phone number, available for both English and Spanish...
San Lucas students are driving force behind street improvements
SAN LUCAS ā Children in San Lucas can now safely walk to school following the construction of new sidewalks and freshly paved streets in the South Monterey County town.
A ribbon-cutting ceremony and resource fair took place Oct. 26 at San Lucas Union School to...





















