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Woodward Marine Market brings new energy and a high culinary bar to Moss Landing Harbor.
Eat + Drink

Woodward Marine Market brings new energy and a high culinary bar to Moss Landing Harbor.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Feb 15, 2024

Different worlds converge in Moss Landing. There is commercial fishing, and people who make their living from the sea. There’s a power plant i…

Two women killed after car plunges into Moss Landing Harbor.
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Two women killed after car plunges into Moss Landing Harbor.

  • Mary Duan
  • Apr 11, 2021

Update: The Monterey County Coroner's Office has identified the victims as driver Maria Vanessa Carrango, 35, from Salinas and passenger Esthe…

Boat launch docks reopen on Monterey Bay to recreational boaters.
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Boat launch docks reopen on Monterey Bay to recreational boaters.

  • Pam Marino
  • May 19, 2020

It’s been good fishing in Monterey Bay this year but for the past three months local sport fishermen and women have been left high and dry on …

An otter dies crossing the street, and a bureaucratic tangle follows.
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An otter dies crossing the street, and a bureaucratic tangle follows.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jul 21, 2016

I once saw a mountain lion as it crossed the street in front of my headlights on a mountain road in Death Valley National Park…

Moss Landing fishermen hold federal research buoy for ransom.
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Moss Landing fishermen hold federal research buoy for ransom.

  • David Schmalz
  • Apr 7, 2016

The U.S. government does not negotiate with fishermen.

How two volunteers changed our understanding of sea otters.
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How two volunteers changed our understanding of sea otters.

  • David Schmalz
  • Mar 31, 2016

Two volunteers, chasing a hunch, helped forever change the way we think about southern sea otters, and the Elkhorn Slough. Their discoveries might help them both.

With a heady mixture of litigation, a pot grow and dreams of a desal plant, the real estate mogul’s Moss Landing Commercial Park has far more than meets the eye.
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With a heady mixture of litigation, a pot grow and dreams of a desal plant, the real estate mogul’s Moss Landing Commercial Park has far more than meets the eye.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jul 23, 2015

Nader Agha walks down a weedy access road between Moss Landing Harbor and Highway 1, picking his way through wild fennel and broom growing up …

Moss Landing Labs bids sad farewell to research vessel Point Sur.
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Moss Landing Labs bids sad farewell to research vessel Point Sur.

  • Kera Abraham
  • Mar 11, 2015

The Point Sur, a 135-foot research vessel, has left its 28-year home of Moss Landing Harbor, headed through the Panama Canal to its new home i…

How John Gregg, the buyer of the Western Flyer, plans to revive the spirits of Steinbeck and Ricketts.
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How John Gregg, the buyer of the Western Flyer, plans to revive the spirits of Steinbeck and Ricketts.

  • David Schmalz
  • Mar 4, 2015

John Gregg first learned of John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts in 1970, when he was 10 years old and read the 1941 book Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely…

The tale of Monterey County's Whale Entanglement Team, and the one that got away.
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The tale of Monterey County's Whale Entanglement Team, and the one that got away.

  • Walter Ryce
  • Nov 13, 2014

(A later and more expanded version of this story appeared Nov. 26, 2014. Click here for that one.) 

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