About Kathryn McKenzie

Kathryn McKenzie grew up in Santa Cruz, worked for the Monterey Herald for 10 years, and now freelances for a variety of publications and websites. She and husband Glenn Church are the co-authors of "Humbled: How California's Monterey Bay Escaped Industrial Ruin" (Vista Verde Publishing, 2020).

February 5, 2021

Pictures from a Pandemic Santa Cruz exhibit gets in-depth treatment in gallery talk series

October 2, 2020

The Refinery That Never Was New book details 1965 project to make Monterey Bay an industrial center

August 6, 2020

Dread McCall, 1954-2020 Photographer, Warrior, Comrade

June 2, 2020

Caught in a Spiritual Crossfire Former St. Dunstan's rector now at church used as Trump prop

April 9, 2020

Hangin’ on the telephone The COVID-19 Chronicles: The gifts of time, the phone, and joyful noise

April 2, 2020

All The World’s A Stage Local arts groups move performances online

March 26, 2020

The long road home from Antarctica The COVID-19 Chronicles

March 12, 2020

Suffrage and suffering Celebrating women’s hard-fought right to vote

February 20, 2020

Solidarity, not charity Caroline’s Pantry feeds the hungry, no questions asked

October 31, 2019

Días de Los Muertos: Party with the dead Celebrations set all around the Central Coast

October 17, 2019

Remembering Loma Prieta Readers share quake stories from Oct. 17, 1989

August 29, 2019

Hot times in the fields Watsonville group works to protect farmworkers from climate change

Monterey County supervisors return to proposed mental health facility

‘Where the social justice movement was headed’

Reversing the narrative: Lowrider car clubs come to Cal State Monterey Bay

Yet another Christmas poem

To protect underage farmworkers, California expands oversight of field conditions

La veneración a Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe continúa, a pesar del temor de los migrantes

Salinas City Council moves forward with new rental assistance program

Veneration of Our Lady of Guadalupe to continue despite immigrants’ fears

Washington’s financial disruption means fewer teachers for Monterey County’s migrant students

Escasa vigilancia y pocas inspecciones dejan a agricultores menores de edad expuestos a pesticidas tóxicos

Lax oversight, few inspections leave child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides

California’s child farmworkers: exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields

Los niños jornaleros de California: agotados, mal pagados y trabajando en campos de cultivo tóxicos

Q+A: How Hawaiian princes brought surfing to Santa Cruz

Monterey County awards new $139 million jail health care contract

Los temores a ICE están perjudicando la salud pública

‘Te acaban de llevar’

With little apparent evidence, DA investigators question petition process

Programa de cocinas domésticas del condado de Monterey abre nuevas oportunidades

Se estima que 80,000 personas en los condados de Monterey y Santa Cruz dependen de los beneficios del SNAP