Xol Venegas wears handmade butterfly gloves at the Oakland Día de los Muertos Festival in Fruitvale in 2023. Día de los Muertos remains her favorite holiday. (Estefany Gonzalez for KQED) Blanca Torres Nov 12, 2025 Updated 1:16 pm PT This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. Click here to subscribe. I had planned to spend Nov. 1, a Saturday, cleaning and organizing my house. Then my friend Susie Sanchez-Young, owner of The...

Vanessa Rancaño Jun 27 The entrance to Concord Farms in Half Moon Bay on Jan. 3, 2024. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) Updated 2:30 p.m. Thursday Half Moon Bay officials cleared the way for an embattled affordable housing project for farmworkers to move forward, a year after a mass shooting at a mushroom farm in the city put a spotlight on the wretched living conditions of many of the area’s agricultural workers. On Wednesday, the City Council unanimously approved the 40-unit development that will house...