Salinas News

The City of Salinas is inviting residents to participate in its budget building process next month in preparation for the 2010-11 fiscal year. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m...Sherwood Hall, 940 North Main St. City Manager Artie Fields...

Here are Salinas-area closings for Monday, Oct. 12 in honor of Columbus Day: Schools: Some districts, schools closed. Call individual school for information. Banks: Closed. Post office: Closed. Monterey County offices: Open. Salinas city offices: Open. Northridge Mall: Open. The...

The Salinas City Council might have taken a first step Tuesday toward establishing a city ordinance regulating tobacco retail licensing. Councilwoman Gloria De La Rosa, a nurse, is working to establish a health committee on the council to consider the...

But the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday that the Sept. 25 heist appears to be something else: a scam by one or both of the alleged victims, an aspiring lawyer who once sold puppies and a retired Harvard Medical...

Bay Area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries to his lower body, said Office Lalo Villegas, the department's spokesman. Police believe the incident began about 9:10 a.m. as the man rode a red bicycle with all-terrain tires on Boronda near the intersection...

The tug-of-war over political control in the Alisal Union School District is likely to continue as early election results Tuesday night showed only one of two incumbents targeted by detractors was behind in the voting. As of 11:30 p.m., it...

He was released from the hospital about five hours after the shooting, his daughter said. Police are investigating whether the shooting, which happened an hour before students usually arrive on campus, was part of a robbery attempt or whether it...