Monterey County Blog Articles

California Local is helping a powerful organization tell a big story about confronting problems that threaten the soul of the North Lake Tahoe community.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres defends "the cornerstone of democratic societies—free, independent, and pluralistic media.”

We’ve made our proprietary content management platform available for fellow publishers.

In which we explore how we do community journalism at California Local.

Recent discussions in social media revealed a lack of maps of safe local bike routes. So we connected with local bike experts to start a crowdsourced project to create some.

I hoped the events of Jan. 6, 2021, would put an end to the Big Lie—that the election of 2020 was bogus. But on Jan. 6, 2022, the Big Lie got even bigger.

We take a look under the hood of California Local’s Traffic and Transportation portal, which provides comprehensive information on local road and traffic conditions, current CHP incidents and traffic congestion hot spots.

In which we ponder how to make things better in a climate of no.

We wanted to build a better local newspaper; it turned into something much larger.

In which we ponder human self organization.

Thank you for finding California Local. This is what we’re doing, and why we’re doing it.

California Local gives a voice to community volunteers—and the business leaders who make their work possible.