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Surf season is here—and also the surf season that never ends in the Central Valley.
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Surf season is here—and also the surf season that never ends in the Central Valley.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Nov 20, 2025

Sara Rubin here, ready to go wave watching again as another winter swell comes into Monterey Bay starting tonight. Emphasis on the “watching” …

Local surf shop owner Kelly Sorensen celebrates his birthday on the waves – in the Central Valley.
831 (Tales from the Area Code)

Local surf shop owner Kelly Sorensen celebrates his birthday on the waves – in the Central Valley.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Sep 18, 2025

Kelly Sorensen grew up in Fresno in California’s Central Valley, hours from beaches. But as soon as he was old enough to drive, he made the Mo…

Dolores Huerta
Face to Face

Dolores Huerta

  • Sara Rubin
  • Oct 13, 2016

The United Farm Workers co-founder talks politics and negotiating strategy.

Salinas Valley State Prison inmates to join nationwide strike.
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Salinas Valley State Prison inmates to join nationwide strike.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Sep 8, 2016

While he has spent much of the past two years in solitary confinement, Melvin Ray is still eager to talk about what he sees as a growing natio…

Ag tech industry leaders envision future without field workers.
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Ag tech industry leaders envision future without field workers.

  • Nick Rahaim
  • Jul 21, 2016

On July 13 and 14, agribusiness and technology leaders from around the world met in Salinas for the Forbes AgTech Summit. The future of agricu…

California wild salmon's survival rests on water politics.
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California wild salmon's survival rests on water politics.

  • Maria Grusauskas
  • Mar 17, 2016

The survival of California’s wild salmon population depends on unprecedented cooperation between scientists, fishermen and the species itself.

Some of the biggest news of the past year never went public.
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Some of the biggest news of the past year never went public.

  • Tim Redmond
  • Oct 15, 2015

Even in the social media era, when a small news outlet can create a viral story, some of the biggest news of the past year never got to most of the public.

Supermarket power, Mexican revolution and an undocumented Pulitzer winner in Watsonville.
Arts & Culture

Supermarket power, Mexican revolution and an undocumented Pulitzer winner in Watsonville.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Mar 5, 2015

Filmmakers Consuelo Alba and her husband John Speyer co-founded the Watsonville Film Festival in 2012 because they saw, in their professional …

Los Padres gravel project gives drought-stressed steelhead more places to spawn.
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Los Padres gravel project gives drought-stressed steelhead more places to spawn.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Sep 4, 2014

Carmel River steelhead are picky about their rocks. They can’t be too big or too small. So Monterey Peninsula Water Management District is try…

Real estate analysts see green in DeepWater Desal's proposed Moss Landing desal-data center project.
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Real estate analysts see green in DeepWater Desal's proposed Moss Landing desal-data center project.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Updated Sep 4, 2014

Forget, for just a moment, rate hikes on your monthly water bill and how pricey it is to build a desalination plant. How much does it cost to …

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