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Residents of Big Sur noticed it first, as commute times were surprisingly short. Then people working in hospitality, when few guests came thro…
When Patrice Pastor’s real estate development company, Esperanza Carmel, acquired the Rocky Point Restaurant property near Big Sur’s iconic Bi…
Since the dawn of social media, Big Sur, if it wasn’t already, has become a bucket-list destination for tourists the world over.
FREE SPEECHThe California Public Records Act requires that public agencies share, when requested, “any writing containing information relating…
CLOSED FOR REPAIRS… Because of Highway 1’s new status as a “most beautiful road trip” on an Instagram-pics-per-mile basis (see last week’s col…
Tourism is both an opportunity and a threat, something Big Sur residents know well and are now trying to figure out how to maximize the positi…
Between Christmas and New Year’s, the traffic on Highway 1 in Big Sur turns hairy as tourists scout for parking near popular viewing and hikin…
It’s not just Big Sur suffering the pains of selfie-driven tourism, it’s happening at destinations all over the globe. Nevertheless, locals wa…
The other day some opportunistic Big Sur locals took the occasion of ongoing Highway 1 closures to pour Champagne on each others heads—in the …
By successfully working with Los Angeles-based location scouts and HBO to score one of the more buzzed-about cable series of 2017, the Montere…