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Since March 9, 2026, when a three-alarm fire ignited from an unknown source around 3:45am in the Casanova Plaza apartment complex in Monterey, the residents – many elderly, disabled and low-income – have endured months of displacement, living out of hotels and with friends and relatives.
There’s a saying about flu seasons, says Kristy Mich…
Six years ago, Luke Coletti came in first place in a…
As California invests $116 million in one-time fundi…
After a family member’s water ran brown when an AI data center set up shop next to their home, CSU Monterey Bay student Andres Chavez was motivated to attend a protest on campus against the AI that has become ubiquitous on campus.
The Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 o…
The competition is not televised nationally. There a…
Paula Petrosky and Brett Veschecco are chatting as t…
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Before Aries-born Maya Angelou became a celebrated author, she was San Francisco’s first Black female streetcar conductor, a calypso dancer, a cook, a journalist in Ghana, and an actress. She didn’t publish her first memoir until she was 41. She spoke six languages…
MONTEREY IS NOT THE OBVIOUS PLACE TO MEET REX RAY FO…
Have you ever been intrigued by Quebec? This little …
How would you like to hang out with Laura Palmer?
Our editorial board’s endorsement process is based o…
Camilla Alkhassadeh and her family live in Royal Oaks with about 100 farm animals, from pigs and goats to chickens, turkeys, sheep and miniature horses. They are not just any farm animals. Some were once destined for the plate. These are “friends not food,” as one slogan goes for Little Hill…
Governments buy a lot of things, and the contracts a…
Alvarado Street Brewery’s transition to a new facility means a lower-alcohol facelift for its lager.
For years, the craft beer market gravitated toward h…
These days even feared creatures appreciate the powe…
BEFORE THE WHOLEHEARTED CHORUS could gather more than a hundred singers on the Monterey Peninsula, before audiences rose from their seats to dance and sing along at Sunset Center in Carmel, there were six to 12 people meeting in Big Sur. Lisa G. Littlebird, who has now built one of the large…
