Community healthcare worker Maria Adolfo-Morales talks to residents in early March who sought shelter at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds in Watsonville after the farming town of Pajaro was flooded.

ANACORTES — Peering down between two large rocks on the beach, 11-year-old Lenin Santiago shouts “a crab, a crab” as a tiny shell sprouts legs and begins to scurry away. Several classmates gather ...

Across the Central Coast, we have a large and growing Mixteco population. It is a Mexican indigenous community that has its own language, and that’s a barrier the San Luis Obispo County Public Health ...

OXNARD, Calif. – New digital books in the Mixteco language are available for students in transitional kindergarten through 8th grade at Oxnard School District. According to the superintendent of the ...

Community trusted messengers or promotores have been working across San Luis Obispo County and Santa Barbara County to make sure minorities have access to accurate information about COVID-19. One of ...

WATSONVILLE >> When Angela Martinez moved to Watsonville from Oaxaca 14 years ago, her family was one of the few who spoke Mixteco, an indigenous language used in Southern Mexico. “It was very ...

WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Inside an evacuation center at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Maria Adolfo-Morales and a disaster service volunteer listened to a woman describe her concerns in the Mixteco ...

WATSONVILLE — Inside an evacuation center at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds, Maria Adolfo-Morales and a disaster service volunteer listened to a woman describe her concerns in the Mixteco language.