Adam Bolaños Scow has experience running campaigns—he worked on two successful fracking bans, Measure J in San Benito County and Measure Z in Monterey County—and helped Public Water Now on the strategy behind a public water buyout initiative voters on the Monterey Peninsula passed last year.…

The Monterey Peninsula Unified School District had been moving toward the goal line with plans for major upgrades to the Monterey High School stadium and athletic field, but will hit pause on that project to conduct an environmental impact report. 

On Friday, Oct. 11, Jack Sagin walked out into the world freely for the first time in 33 years. 

Fisherman’s Wharf in Monterey is known for its narrow corridor packed with chowder hawkers, musical buskers and enticing shops. On Friday afternoon, Oct. 11, dozens of visitors pushed past the usual revelry of the wharf for what awaited at its end: the yacht known as Maiden.

With just four days to spare, a U.S. district judge in New York slapped a temporary injunction against a move by the Trump administration to deny citizenship to some immigrants based on potential future need of public benefits.

CSU Monterey Bay is facing a federal lawsuit from an employee who says she was sexually assaulted by her boss and then further mistreated when she reported the incident.

What was once a military training ground is now a scenic cemetery with a place for veterans to be laid to rest. As it gets ready to expand beyond phase one, the Central Coast Veterans Cemetery on the former Fort Ord received recognition on Oct. 9 from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs,…

A second former Monterey County Sheriff’s deputy has been arrested on charges he sexually assaulted female inmates while on duty at the Monterey County Jail.

The Pacific Grove Planning Commission looked to the past when it denied three affordable housing units in downtown at 301 Grand Ave last month. On Wednesday, Oct. 2, the City Council looked to the future.

It’s been one battle after another for Monterey County Emergency Medical System Chief Michael Petrie since he took over the EMS Agency in September 2016. He’s gone head to head with fire chiefs, union presidents, the county’s current ambulance provider and others, culminating this year in th…

The Federal Aviation Administration announced $986 million in grants to airports across the country for infrastructure improvements, and Monterey Regional made the cut, receiving $5.1 million. (Larger airports, like Los Angeles International, received $40 million for a sound insulation proje…

Sand City hired Aaron Blair as its new city manager at the Oct. 1 City Council meeting, filling a position that was vacated more than a year ago. Blair previously served two years as town manager in Granby, Colorado, a city of about 2,000 near Rocky Mountain National Park. 

The mayor and city council of Sand City say that a rock climbing gym would make a great community institution, but on Oct. 1, they rejected the particular one that was being proposed.

While some of the championship contenders gambled and others played a high speed chess game, rookie Colton Herta put on a show, dominating the field on his way to victory at Sunday’s Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey.

Rookie of the year contender Colton Herta took the pole position and the four season championship contenders all filed into the top six starting positions. But the conversation following Saturday's qualifying round at the NTT IndyCar Series Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey revolved around Fe…

On Friday, Sept. 20, hundreds of Monterey County residents joined hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. and millions worldwide in a youth-led effort to draw attention to the climate crisis. Climate strikes occured in over 1,100 locations across the country, three of them within Mon…

Federal immigration agents arrested a man at the Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas on Friday morning Sept. 20, setting off a chain reaction as court officials try to determine the man's identity and why they weren't alerted to the arrest by courthouse security staff.

Lap times fell, drivers spun their cars and the NTT IndyCar Series wrapped up Friday’s free practice session with a little more experience on the twisting 2.238-mile WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca course.

In February 2017, the Oroville Dam’s spillways failed. It prompted the California Department of Water Resources’ Division of Dam Safety to reevaluated the condition of aging spillways across the state.

Three Salinas police officers who shot and killed a 20-year-old woman in Salinas on March 1, 2019 will not be charged with any crime.

The scene was unlike anything state senators had seen in memory as they worked to end the 2019 legislative session on the evening of Friday, Sept. 13.

After 14 years, Lew Bauman's last day as county administrative officer was Sept. 13, and then he was off to the green pastures of retirement. The day before he said his farewell, though, the county announced it had found his replacement—Charles McKee, who joined the county in 2003 and most r…

Dane Cameron sums up Acura Team Penske’s performance on Sunday as “pretty close to a perfect day.”

In GTD qualifying, a red flag with four minutes remaining put teams in limbo. In GTLM, a driver was forced to navigate backwards. And when the prototypes took their turn, it was a stomach-wrenching waiting game.

Every June, the Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner releases the Crop Report, the definitive annual snapshot of the status of the county’s number one industry, worth $4.2 billion in 2018. For the past three crop report announcements at least one commodity has been the elephant in the f…

After the first practice session on Friday for the IMSA SportsCar Championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, a sense of calm prevailed in the Acura Team Penske garage.

The union representing the faculty of Monterey Peninsula College has secured a tentative deal with the administration for a three-year contract, which could mean raises and reduced workloads for instructors and an end to years of labor acrimony on campus. 

As temperatures reached the mid 80s on Thursday, Sept. 12, people flocked to the beach with many hopping in the chilly Monterey Bay without wetsuits.

After 15 months of stressful, orange-cone corrals and bottlenecked bumper-to-bumper traffic at rush hour, the $8.5 million project on North Fremont Boulevard is finishing right on schedule, according to the city of Monterey.

If there’s one thing the Monterey Bay area has plenty of, it’s fog. A researcher at CSU Monterey Bay does not see the low-hanging cloud formation as a weather condition but as a sustainable source of water. (It turns out that in every cubic yard’s worth of fog, there’s a droplet of water the…

Patrick Webster wiped tears from his eyes as he spoke to a crowd of over 100 people from the diving community. Warm light from a late-evening sun fell over his face.

The testimony of a pair of jailhouse informants put a man in prison 33 years ago for the murder of a Monterey woman.

With every passing week, California American Water clears more hurdles as it sets out to build a desalination plant near Marina. The most recent victory for the proponents of the $329 million project came on Aug. 28 at the California Supreme Court. 

Arthur Bright’s story to law enforcement about the cannabis plants he was growing at his home on Carmel Valley Road stretched the limits of credulity. Maybe because when he got caught last year, he told officials that the 500 plants were for his own medicinal use. 

The trial of the man accused of kidnapping, raping and murdering 13-year-old Christina Williams has been put off until next March, after prosecutors revealed in court they had failed to turn over tens of thousands of pages of discovery to defense attorneys. 

Maybe you spent Labor Day (Sept. 2) relaxing, or maybe you spent it working—perhaps in exchange for overtime pay?—but either way, the Weekly examined evolving ideas about work in our Aug. 29 cover story.