Recent Stories
Delta Deception
California’s booming salmon season belies the species’ precarious future
As Monterey County’s own water troubles persist, the Bay Delta’s water battle also rages on – with a species and a local industry that depends on it hanging in the balance. California is currently experiencing ...
Salmon Skeptics
Many anglers doubt the government’s optimistic salmon numbers.
Driving rain, choppy seas and the superstition of Friday the 13th weren’t enough to keep a handful of eager anglers from the Moss Landing harbor. They boarded the sportfishing vessel Kahuna in hopes of hooking ...
Home & Garden 2012: Freeze, Gopher
Why raised beds are paramount to a well-tended – and well-defended – garden.
here’s nothing quite as frustrating as spending hours of diligent work and fists fulls of cash on a humble home vegetable garden, only to see the literal fruits of your labor nibbled, stripped or – ...
Traumatic Arts
Central Coast Center for Independent Living helps victims put a face to traumatic brain injuries.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but some photos do more than share a story. Victims of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) attending a support group at the Central Coast Center For Independent ...
Leading By Example
SPCA’s Take the Lead program trains at-risk kids to train shelter dogs
Whether it’s a small group of middle school students in Salinas or at-risk youth at a probation center, the SPCA for Monterey County has found a way to train dogs while serving young people in ...
Devoid of Dungeness
Standoff over crab price pushes holiday staple off the menu.
While the vast majority of households in the U.S. look forward to a nice turkey this Thanksgiving, many residents of the greater Bay Area anticipate dunking fresh Dungeness crab in melted butter. But this year ...
Turtle Tracking
Feds launch leatherback protections on the Central Coast; conservationists log sightings.
The leatherback turtle is a rare and cryptic animal that has existed, almost unchanged, since before the dinosaurs. A select group of these resilient reptiles travels trans-Pacific every year to spend their late summers munching ...
Cut and Rumble
A local barber uses motorcycles (and metaphors) to help out strangers.
Books like Falling into Grace by Adyashanti and Love by Mother Teresa aren’t usually the type of literary fare one finds in a men’s barber shop. But Fred Reynolds isn’t your average chap with scissors ...
To Air, With Humans
Sean D. Tucker, Canadian Snowbirds lead symphony of aerobatics at International Airshow Salinas.
Normally International Airshow Salinas organizers like it when stunt planes lead the news. Not this time. On the heels of the fatal crash that killed 10 at the Reno Air Races a week before its ...
Trawlers’ Tribute
Long-time local fishing family hopes to memorialize those lost at sea.
Having stuffed the hold of his 50-foot trawler, Relentless, with Dover sole, David “Rowdy” Pennisi, 43, and crew member Michael Odom headed to San Francisco in the early hours of June 21, 2004 to offload ...
