Food Assistance

California state legislators are considering funding changes to a program that supports food banks. Plus, Monterey Bay will have a commercial salmon fishing season for the first time in three years.

Advocates for small-scale farmers and for people facing food insecurity are both pushing the state for more funding as federal cuts hit hard on all sides of the farm-to-table supply chain.

An officer-involved shooting in Marina. A Martin Luther King Jr. Day march in Santa Cruz contends with a national background of civil rights regression. And, a state program that doubles CalFresh dollars spent at farmers markets may be at risk.

In today's newscast, California is making it easier to build homes, but harder to address homelessness. Plus, Santa Cruz City Schools will continue offering free meals in the upcoming school year, as well as hands-on food systems education.

Three years ago, someone set fire to the Food Bank for Monterey County and no one has ever been arrested. The arson destroyed a fleet of vehicles and…