A nationwide E. Coli outbreak that has resulted in more than 30 hospitalizations and prompted health officials to instruct consumers to stay away from romaine lettuce may have started in Monterey County. Read More …
An accident during a training exercise involving a Blackhawk helicopter caused a tent to collapse at Fort Hunter Liggett in Monterey County on Wednesday, leaving 22 soldiers injured. At about 9:30 Read More …
A man kayaking in Monterey last week was screaming with joy, not fear, when he was approached by a great white shark, not once, but twice. [ABC 7]
On July 2, Eddy Willis was fishing for halibut when he spotted a great white shark swimming by his kayak. Willis filmed the encounter. Read More …
A stretch of Highway 1 north of Ragged Point that has been closed for more than a year following a massive landslide will reopen on July 20, according to Caltrans.
In May 2017, a massive landslide at Mud Creek in Big Sur shut down an approximately quarter mile stretch of Highway 1 that is about eight miles north of the Monterey and San Luis Obispo County line. Read More …
Monterey County Sheriff’s deputies destroyed thousands of opium poppy plants over the weekend that were being grown in a field in Moss Landing.
Last week, sheriff’s investigators learned of the grow site and confirmed that the plants were indeed Papaver Somniferum, commonly known as opium poppies. Read More …
A Los Osos man and Monterey County elementary school teacher no longer faces a child molestation charge, after San Luis Obispo County prosecutors dropped the case against him. [Tribune] In May Read More …
A Santa Cruz man whose life was saved by a firefighter and who once dreamed of himself becoming a fireman has been identified as the gunman who shot and wounded a Read More …
Deputies arrested a man Monday evening who allegedly shot a U.S. Forest Service worker. The suspect then led officers on a chase through Fort Hunter Liggett in southern Monterey County. Shortly Read More …
A shark attacked a man who was spear fishing in the area of Pescadero Point near Pebble Beach Friday afternoon. The victim suffered massive blood loss but survived, according to the Read More …
The Santa Maria City Council has selected a new chief executive who has held management positions up and down the Central Coast and who once departed a job in Monterey County Read More …