That's a wrap for 2025. We look back at the top photos from our staff photographer Daniel Dreifuss.
Slightly Stoopid performs during Cali Roots at the Monterey County Fair and Event Center in May.
Local band Sensory Tribe performs at Cali Roots for the first time.
Steve Bruemmer was bitten by a shark two-and-a-half years ago and is on the long road to recovery. Earlier this year, he was awaiting results from an experimental surgery in his quad to see if he could regain nerve function. Walking uphill and downhill remains a challenge but he is training for a triathlon.
Hundreds march in Seaside to honor Martin Luther King Jr.
Community members hold signs and chant along Del Monte Avenue during the People’s March in January.
Locals, including Karla Lobo, protest President Donald Trump's policies regarding immigration during a "Day Without Immigrants" protest in Seaside.
Collin Morikawa gets his put inline during the AT&T Pro-Am at Spyglass Hill.
Tom Hodges hits the ball out of a sand trap on the 18th hole of Pebble Beach Golf Links during the AT&T Pro-Am.
Chefs Esther Choi (left) and Ayesha Arrington prepare their courses during the Pebble Beach Food and Wine Festival’s The Art of Asian Cuisine dinner.
Gonzales High School's soccer team won a CIF championship and paraded through Gonzales.
A firefighter carries a fire hose as crews work to put out a small brush fire in Carmel Valley.
A costumed character waves at the crowd during the Monterey Peninsula Pride parade.
People march through Alvarado Street in Monterey for the Monterey Peninsula Pride parade.
Alex Palou, the driver of the no. 10 DHL Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, who led all but 11 laps of the 95-lap Java House Grand Prix of Monterey, celebrates his win at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
Wreckage from a plane crash is taken out of the water near Asilomar State Beach. Three people were killed in the crash.
Crowds cheer on the competitors in the beer stein holding contest at the first-ever Alvarado Street Brewery Oktoberfest at Colton Hall.
Crowds enjoyed food, drinks, fancy planes and supercars at the annual Motorlux at the Monterey Jet Center.
Every Wednesday, Central Coast Overdose Prevention’s mobile clinic sets up at Window on the Bay in Monterey, where Dr. Reb Close meets with patients to check in and monitor their well-being.
At the Central Coast Overdose Prevention clinic in Monterey, Dr. Reb Close administers a monthly Sublocade injection to a patient. The drug blocks opioid receptors, preventing users from feeling high.
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