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Closures on Highway 1 mean the South Coast of Big Sur is an island, reliant on helicopters for essentials.
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Closures on Highway 1 mean the South Coast of Big Sur is an island, reliant on helicopters for essentials.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jan 25, 2023

For people who live in Big Sur—accessible via Highway 1, the region's lonely paved artery on the edge of a cliff, and a series of rugged dirt …

California’s new statehouse and congressional districts shake up Monterey County's political landscape into the next decade.
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California’s new statehouse and congressional districts shake up Monterey County's political landscape into the next decade.

  • Christopher Neely
  • Dec 21, 2021

How Monterey County is represented in Sacramento and Washington in the 2020s will look much different than the 2010s after the state commissio…

UPDATED: Camp Roberts will not do double duty as coronavirus quarantine for cruise ship passengers—for now.
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UPDATED: Camp Roberts will not do double duty as coronavirus quarantine for cruise ship passengers—for now.

  • Pam Marino
  • Feb 16, 2020

UPDATED (Feb. 18): For a brief moment, Monterey County officials were preparing to play a role in the developing coronavirus story. That momen…

Entangled whale, headed toward Oregon, is a first.
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Entangled whale, headed toward Oregon, is a first.

  • David Schmalz
  • Apr 10, 2017

In all her years, Peggy Stap hasn't seen, or heard of, anything like it: a whale entangled in metal. 

Here’s what your lawmakers did in Sacramento last year.
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Here’s what your lawmakers did in Sacramento last year.

  • Sara Rubin
  • Jan 5, 2017

“Dumpster fire” had an outside chance of becoming Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year in 2016. It was the year beloved celebrities including …

UPDATE: Dead woman pulled from car that went over cliff identified.
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UPDATE: Dead woman pulled from car that went over cliff identified.

  • Pam Marino
  • Jan 4, 2017

UPDATE: The car belonging to a North Hollywood couple missing since before Christmas was recovered from 325 feet down a cliff near Ragged Poin…

Denial of controversial oil refinery project is appealed in SLO County.
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Denial of controversial oil refinery project is appealed in SLO County.

  • David Schmalz
  • Oct 24, 2016

The proposed rail spur project at an oil refinery in San Luis Obispo County isn't dead yet, and the specter of three trains per week carrying …

SLO Oil Train hearing to continue in late February.
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SLO Oil Train hearing to continue in late February.

  • David Schmalz
  • Feb 8, 2016

Hundreds of activists from across the state flooded to San Luis Obispo Feb. 4-5 to speak their minds about the proposed Phillips 66 rail spur …

County officials urge San Luis Obispo to reject oil train.
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County officials urge San Luis Obispo to reject oil train.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jan 29, 2016

In a strongly worded letter sent Jan. 28, Monterey County officials urged the San Luis Obispo Planning Commission to deny a project that would…

Crude oil rail train project comes to a head.
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Crude oil rail train project comes to a head.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jan 28, 2016

A project that would bring oil by rail through Monterey County comes to a head.

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