Health officials are warning the public to avoid eating mushrooms they may have bought from a truck vendor in Salinas, after three people showed up to the Salinas Valley Health emergency room on Dec. 31 with severe mushroom poisoning.
David Schmalz here, with a few things to say about skepticism, as it’s on the menu this weekend in the Monterey Peninsula.
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The U.S. Department of Education has been around since the mid-1800s, but it’s relatively new in the modern era as a cabinet-level agency. In 1980, Congress split the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into two: Education, and the U.S.…
The County Board of Supervisors will meet Tuesday, Jan. 7 and will consider adopting the 2024 Cannabis Program Strategic Plan, which updates management strategies to reflect the county’s evolving cannabis industry.
For more than a year, Soledad-based Sitos Group has operated a pilot program at ReGen Monterey’s waste management facility in Marina, transforming wood waste and other organic materials into a usable product while removing carbon that would otherwise end up…
The first weekend after Natividad hospital’s Level II trauma center in Salinas opened on Jan. 5, 2015, patients with major injuries were showing up for care, so much so, the radiologist on duty was astonished.
On Dec. 2, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, addressed his fellow Assembly members, informing them of a new rule he was implementing for the 2025-26 legislative session: The number of bills each member will be allowed to introduce will…
FREE SPEECHABC News will pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over host George Stephanopoulos’ incorrect claim on air that the president-elect was found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll, when a…
Daniel Dreifuss here. As I reflect on 2024, many stories and photos stand out in my memory. From capturing the defining moments at the AT&T Pro-Am to documenting the incredible journey of the Hericanes rowing across the Pacific, it’s been…
Erik Chalhoub here, just now realizing it’s been a quarter of a century since the Y2K scare. These days, when computers essentially control our lives, it’s hard to imagine that we were ever worried if they could count past 1,999.
This Thursday, Jan. 2, Monterey County Weekly’s event series, Mic'd Up at The Press Club will have a pleasure to speak with James Michael Dorsey. (Events are all at 12:30pm, the first Thursday of each month.)
This Thursday, Jan. 2, Monterey County Weekly’s event series, Mic'd Up at The Press Club will have a pleasure to speak with James Michael Dorsey. (Events are all at 12:30pm, the first Thursday of each month.)
A series of incidents involving bodies lost to the sea has been reported along the Monterey Bay shoreline, according to the Monterey County Sheriff's Office.
Sara Rubin here, thinking about a conversation I had last week on Christmas Eve with Leticia Ibarra Anthony. She was planning a Christmas Day dedicated to giving back, by joining fellow volunteers in distributing food to unhoused people in Soledad.
With 2024 coming to a close, we take a look back at the top photos of the year from our staff photographer Daniel Dreifuss.
Erik Chalhoub here. Going into my first year of judging the Weekly’s annual 101-Word Short Story Contest, I didn’t know what to expect. I had heard it could get pretty testy, with some judges taking the assignment a little too…
Monterey County is filled with such wonderful people. The Monterey County Weekly highlighted the diverse and interesting stories of those people this year.
Sara Rubin here, fascinated as always by animal-human interactions. In this case, I’m thinking about a parrot named Jazzy that has made herself part of the Seaside Police Department community, and in this week’s issue of the Weekly, makes an…
Erik Chalhoub here, always looking forward to digging through the ETC photo submissions from our readers. Beyond the sunsets (always stunning), birds (so colorful) and beaches (iconic), the ones that grab me are those from the numerous large and small…
