One thing keeping workers out of the workforce: Access to affordable child care and preschool. Many parents, especially women, haven’t returne…
The pandemic has given us an opportunity to see many things in a new light and appreciate what was often overlooked. Child care is one of thos…
Norma Estevez is a child care provider in Salinas who was eager to get the Covid-19 vaccine. But when she became eligible on Feb. 17, it was a…
Formal and informal child care providers can now register to receive Covid-19 vaccinations in Monterey County, says Francine Rodd, executive d…
Salinas >> Advocates are celebrating recent legislation that will allow more families in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties to…
A man, who police say admitted to inappropriately touching a child in his care at a Salinas daycare center, has been arrested.