Lauri Eberhart is a powerful figure in motorsports. She served as legal counsel for Charlotte Motor Speedway and Speedway Motorsports, which operates 11 racetracks. She is a founding member of Apollo Sports & Entertainment Law Group. She advises clients on…
Sloan Campi here, waiting on a new record player to arrive in the mail so I can spin my recently acquired City and Colour album. The past weekend was pretty stellar for music on the Monterey Peninsula, and it’s poised…
The two-year average it takes the County of Monterey to process permits for cannabis operations could hurt businesses that are already incurring fees such as rent as they await approval.
Big Sur just cannot catch a break. Sara Rubin here, thinking about many perfect scones I’ve enjoyed over the years on the rustic deck of the Big Sur Bakery. The beloved restaurant burned down in a kitchen fire on Friday…
You can’t easily visit Big Sur right now, but you can still show its residents and businesses some love on Tuesday, May 7 at the Big Sur Disaster Relief Fund’s benefit event. Guests at the event will be wined and…
The County of Monterey is racing to get a draft housing plan approved as required by the state. The draft plan, called a housing element, was released to the public over the weekend. A public listening session was called on…
Big Sur Fire Chief Matt Harris was sitting in the station and smelled the smoke even before a call came in reporting a structure fire. He and a colleague saw a black plume of smoke and quickly started suiting up.
For more than half of Sunday’s Trans Am Western Championship contest at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, Kyle Kelley was consigned to watch battles play out in front of him.
How many cookbooks do you have?
Restaurants reach for Michelin stars to be identified as the crème de la crème of eateries. Now hotels have Michelin Keys to grasp in the first-ever list of most exceptional lodgings in the U.S.—and three Monterey County luxury hotels made…
Sara Rubin here, flipping through a hefty, glossy magazine published along with the regular print edition of the Weekly this week.
Michelle Nagai took the pole, Barry Boes led the TA2 pack, but after the checkered flag fell on qualifying at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca all eyes turned toward the weather forecast.
Erik Chalhoub here, thinking about how interconnected the tri-county region is, not just on an economic level, but on a personal level for many of us.
Agata Popęda here, very proud. In a month we will be celebrating the one-year anniversary since Mic’d Up at The Press Club returned, in a refreshed format, to the cafe in the Monterey County Weekly’s building. For over a year…
A federal indictment unsealed on Thursday, May 2 alleges 11 men participated in a series of criminal actions as members of the Salinas Acosta Plaza Norteños street gang.
For drivers in the Trans Am Western Championship, the weekend promises to be a wild one—and not just because a field of muscle car brutes will be tearing around the track.
POLICE STATION
FREE SPEECHFormer President Donald Trump loves to rant about the New York Times’ coverage of him, but he begrudgingly granted the publication several interviews. President Joe Biden, however, has not. On April 25, Politico published an article, titled “The Petty…
On a recent morning, the whirs of construction carry through the air at 2300 Garden Road in Monterey, and Brad Slama, a developer, leads the way through a massive former office building that he’s converting into 64 apartments.
The Salinas Valley Health board of directors is getting closer to choosing a replacement for former president and CEO Pete Delgado, who stepped down in October 2023 after 10 years. In a closed session meeting on Thursday, April 25, the…
