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By Mark Kreidler, Capital & Main Once a week, Rena Salamacha meets with her executive team inside the Mee Memorial Healthcare System’s medical center in King City to figure out how to stretch a dollar ...

Randall Smith, co-founder of the hedge fund Alden Global Capital, is infamous for two things: gutting local newspapers and a voracious acquisition of pricey real estate. Although he recently sold off ...

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 ...

“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, ...

The first Feast of Lanterns celebration in Pacific Grove was a colorful event held on July 22, 1905. People of all ages and cultures gathered — residents from the bustling Chinatown at Alones Point ...

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CORRECTION: This article has been updated to reflect two corrections. Dr. Karl Steinberg is medical director for Mariner Health’s California properties, not the national organization. In 2010, Mariner ...

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 ...

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In Mercer County, West Virginia, Valeria Steele is proud of her home in Elk View Estates, a mobile home community she says used to be “such a nice place to live.” But since new owners took control ...