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 …
The Nacimiento Dam, which is located in San Luis Obispo County but owned and operated by Monterey County, received a classification from the state of California as being an “extremely high Read More …