Monterey Coastkeeper Sues Over Delayed Ag Runoff Rules
As the Regional Water Quality Control Board prepares to convene May 4 for what promises to be another day packed with highly charged public comments ...
Bomb Squad Search on Cannery Row Yields Cuban Cigars
Investigators from Monterey and Salinas swooped in to The Clement Monterey on Friday after hotel staff called in a suspicious, unmarked package wrapped in manila ...
Cal Am Knew About Collins Conflict
The Peninsula's water supplier saw no need to tell the state a desal project consultant was paying a county water board director.
Sanctuary Backs Plastic Bag Ban
The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary's advisory council is pushing local cities to ban plastic bags.
Armenta Supporters Speak Out Against Recall
Two weeks after Alisal Union School District Board President Jose Castaneda called for a petition to recall County Supervisor Fernando Armenta, more than twenty supporters ...
Panetta Likely For Defense Secretary, Patraeus May Head CIA
President Barack Obama is expected to announce Leon Panetta as defense secretary as current Defense Secretary Robert Gates prepares to step down this summer. U.S. ...
Monning's Soda Tax Bill Dies in Committee
The Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation voted down a penny-per-ounce excise tax on sweetened beverages on Monday, killing a bill introduced by Assemblyman Bill ...
PG&E to Roll Out Carmel's SmartMeter Opt-Out Policy Statewide
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. is extending a temporary, no-cost opportunity for customers to opt out of SmartMeters, PG&E's wireless technology that records electric and ...
Davi Steps Down as Real Estate Commissioner
After serving California during one of the most tumultuous economic times in U.S. history, Real Estate Commissioner Jeff Davi is heading back to Monterey and ...
Methyl Iodide Manufacturer Cancels Appearance, but Protest's Still On
Arysta LifeScience, the manufacturer of the controversial fumigant methyl iodide, had planned on meeting the ag community today at the Courtyard Marriott in Salinas, but ...
Monterey High Teachers Speak Out, Call for MPUSD Board to Resign
The turmoil in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District continues to intensify, as increasingly large and vocal groups of stakeholders speak out against the MPUSD ...
County Plans Hundreds of Layoffs
Facing a budget realignment of historic proportions, Monterey County plans to eliminate 250 staff positions. Though no layoff notices would be issued until early June ...
Highway 1 Links Big Sur, Peninsula Once Again
After a month of headaches and long commutes the Big Sur community is once again linked to the Monterey Peninsula via Highway 1. The highway ...
Carmel's Interim City Administrator Steps Into the Fray
More than two weeks after Carmel's former city administrator resigned following a $600,000 sexual harassment settlement, an interim administrator took the helm on Tuesday. After ...
Former Egyptian Ambassador Nabil Fahmy at MIIS
Revolution. What a beautiful word and an even more beautiful concept. And this is what Nabil Fahmy, former Egyptian Ambassador to the U.S., addressed in ...
Seaside to get crime-fighting text messaging service
Starting next week, Seaside residents will be able to report crime with their thumbs - or whichever fingers they use to text on their mobile ...
Peninsula Snags Outstanding Runner Friendly Community Honors
The Monterey Peninsula has been named the 2011 Outstanding Runner Friendly Community by Road Runners Club of America in its annual Runner Friendly Communities program. ...
Monterey Audubon Society Goes Boycotting
The Monterey Audubon Society is taking it upon themselves to be the first conservation group to take formal action against long line fishing for the ...
Monterey Muni Beach and Spanish Bay's Bacterial Bombardment
High levels of indicator bacteria were present in samples taken from Monterey Municipal Beach and Spanish Bay on April 18 resulting in advisories for both ...
Monterey Bay Teachers Union Protests Administrative Raises
As budget cuts and teacher layoffs send shock waves through California's K-12 schools, a salary increase for top administrative staff is being blasted by the ...
Federal Budget Slashes Education Funds for Central Coast Students
The U.S. House of Representatives approved a 2012 budget plan Friday that would make deep cuts to entitlement programs across the board, designed to trim ...
Another One Bites the Dust at MHS: Principal William Crockett resigns
The revolving door at Monterey High School has spit out yet another principal. William Crockett, who’s been at the helm of MHS since September 2009, ...
MIIS Hosted the Second TEDxMonterey on Friday
The second iteration of TEDxMonterey, an independent…colloquium? symposium? presentation?…gathering of ideas, let's call it, began like any good intellectual discourse or inquiry would: With questions. ...
Dog Agility Training Comes to Pacific Grove with Zoom Room
Pets are a $48 billion industry—and over half of the dogs in America are overweight, according to the Association for Pet Obesity Prevention—which helped inspire ...
State's First Methyl Iodide Permit Withdrawn
It took a few months after the California Department of Pesticide Regulation registered the fumigant methyl iodide for use in California for a grower to ...
Judge Upholds Right to Anonymity in Sex Abuse Case Against Priest
A county judge affirmed the rights of the alleged victim, John RJ Doe, in a sexual abuse case against Father Edward Fitz-Henry to remain anonymous, ...
Otter Fund Imperiled as Tax Deadline Approaches
As cash-strapped Californians finish their taxes over the next five days (nearly a quarter of taxpayers file within the last two weeks), conservation advocates are ...
County Rejects Corral de Tierra Plan
After a decade-long process of planning and scaling back plans for a proposed shopping center and office park on Highway 68 at Corral de Tierra ...
SNL Ribs Manning, Kotowski Revelation
Saturday Night Live featured the newly uncovered sex scandal between television minister Rev. Michael Manning and Monterey County Superintendent of Schools, Nancy Kotowski (who wasn’t ...
Diablo Canyon Relicensing Put On Hold
Pacific Gas & Electric made a formal request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Monday that the agency temporarily suspend an ongoing license renewal application ...
BLM Considers South County Oil and Gas Lease
The Bureau of Land Management has released an environmental assessment of a proposed oil and gas lease sale that would offer about 2,400 acres of ...
Hilton Garden Inn Makes Good with Union, Employees
The Local 483 Union—formerly the Hotel Employees & Restaurant Employees Union—and the Hilton Garden Inn Monterey have finally come to a mutual agreement and will ...
VIDEO: Monterey Bay Derby Dames Inaugural Bout
The Weekly offers a look into the Monterey Bay Derby Dames Inaugural Bout. To get a handle on the nuts and bolts of roller derby ...
Court Rejects Marina Coast Water District's Appeal
The lawsuit filed by Ag Land Trust objecting to the regional water project will proceed, ruled the 6th District Court of Appeal on Wednesday. The ...
Monterey Fire Steps Up, Slims Down
The Monterey Fire Department’s labor organizations have agreed to nearly $1 million in concessions and cuts in the upcoming fiscal year, a move that will ...
2010 Salmon Closure Prompts Disaster Loans
The U.S. Small Business Administration is offering Economic Injury Disaster Loans up to $2 million for businesses affected by the 2010 salmon fishery closure at ...
MBARI On Board with Branson Expeditions
A Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute adjunct and Moss Landing Marine Labs are throwing in with eccentric billionaire explorer Richard Branson, of Virgin Atlantic fame, ...
A Family Affair
Television clergyman Rev. Michael Manning, head of the nonprofit Catholic television ministry Wordnet, confessed to having a sexual relationship with his second cousin, Monterey County ...
Italian Internment
The Italian American Heritage Foundation Cultural Center in San Jose will host a public forum on April 10 addressing the internment of Italian Americans during ...
