Helen Rucker, a longtime leader and activist, died early Wednesday morning, Nov. 19 in her home. She was 93 and been in hospice care in her Se…
Big Sur native Rosalia Moon Webster takes the energy of place and channels it into art and activism.
Rosalia Moon Webster is a South Coaster, born and bred – a creature of Big Sur. And like that place, she has a singular energy, which she has …
There is no lack of events celebrating International Women’s Day, March 8, 2024, in Monterey County. Considered by some older Americans as a S…
“How does law enforcement not learn from mistakes, like we saw in Charlottesville, and how and why are we still making these mistakes?”
In the war over Measure Z, the Nov. 8 ballot measure that bans fracking, wastewater injection and new oil development in Monterey County, the …
Despite the four million-plus dollars the oil industry spent to defeat Measure Z, it passed by a 56-44 margin in the Nov. 8 election.
The Seaside City Council meets at 7pm tonight at the Oldemeyer Center, and for the first time ever, it will have the option to approve the Mon…
It’s early for this. It’s so early for this. The election isn’t until 2016 and the shenanigans have already started.
Filmmakers Consuelo Alba and her husband John Speyer co-founded the Watsonville Film Festival in 2012 because they saw, in their professional …
In December, the Weekly broke news on a truly cringeworthy moment in the ongoing effort to produce an environmental impact report on the Monterey Downs project. That moment: In response to a Public Records Act request, the city of Seaside accidentally released a confidential attorney memo that discussed the fact there isn’t enough water for the full build out of Downs, the homes-and-horse-track project proposed for development on part of the former Fort Ord. As a result of that accidental release, and the subsequent reporting by this newspaper and other media, the city decided to hold off on releasing the draft EIR that same week.