Monterey County Elections & Politics Articles

The candidate filing period for the 2024 primary elections only officially opened on Monday, Nov. 13, but local voters already have a sense of who will be running to represent them on the Monterey County Board of Supervisors.

A new law requires K-12 schools to add media literacy to curriculum for English language arts, science, math and history-social studies. Among the lessons will be recognizing fake news.

Democracy is a 2,500-year-old system of government still looked on today as the best system, because under a democratic system, the people govern themselves. But is that all there is to it? What is democracy? And how does it work …

A year from now we’ll be choosing the next U.S. president. But there are many important decisions to be made before then. Now’s the time to start getting ready for the March 5 primary.

By the end of September 2023, more than $358 million had been spent this year on lobbying California’s Legislature, agencies, and Public Utilities Commission.

In less than two months, Greenfield’s District 1 has had three representatives on City Council: Angela Untalon, Luis Dominguez and Drew Tipton. Tipton, the current councilmember, was appointed to fill a vacancy, and his Sept. 12 appointment has prompted a…

With big smiles and cheers, about 20 people showed up at Soledad City Hall on Monday, Oct. 30 to deliver a petition with 1,405 signatures.

It’s the highest-profile race next year in California. This is where the leading candidates—Democrats Barbara Lee, Katie Porter and Adam Schiff—are raising the most money.

With big smiles, members of the Soledad Committee for Voting Rights walked into Soledad City Hall on Monday, Oct. 30 to deliver the 1,398 signatures—two signatures shy of their 1,400 goal—the group has collected seeking to prompt a referendum to…

Alejandro Chavez, a member of Soledad City Council, and Erica Padilla-Chavez, Hartnell College’s trustee for Area 6, have each resigned from their elected positions to move out of the county. Padilla-Chavez shared a statement announcing their resignations on Oct. 18.

California took the first step toward a single-payer health care system when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 770 this month, but the move is not enough for many backers of universal health coverage.

KQED has spent more than three years reporting on how reparations could work in California. This series looks at the nuanced work that could be needed.

Gary Karnes got his start in politics at age 13, walking precincts to advocate for John F. Kennedy as president. He never stopped.

Pacific Grove Mayor Bill Peake has decided to end Zoom call-ins to meetings two weeks after an organized group of white supremacists call-bombed a P.G. City Council meeting.

Former President Trump claims mail balloting is rife with fraud. But to win more elections, the state GOP is expanding its efforts to collect mail ballots to boost turnout.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has made lowering the cost of prescription drugs a signature health care issue, but he rejected a bill to cap what diabetics pay for insulin. His reasoning: California is working on a different solution.

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County voters can soon expect a pre-election mailing related to the March 5, 2024, Presidential Primary Election. The mailing, sent by the Monterey County Elections Department, is used to verify residential and mailing addresses. Instructions are …

Gov. Newsom vetoes what would have been a first-in-the-nation law banning caste discrimination in education, housing and the workplace. The bill divided South Asian communities in California.

The governor says he's not stopping the president of EMILY's List and former University of California regent from running for a full term in the 2024 election. He rebuffed pressure to appoint Rep. Barbara Lee.