The Lighter Side of … California Local

Marshall T. Fulbright III, Monterey Peninsula College’s 12th superintendent/president, has jumped head-first into his new responsibilities.

As players classify animals, they’re actually training machine-learning algorithms that eventually will help scientists sort through the massive backlogs of aquatic visual data.

The Monterey Conference Center in downtown Monterey is seeing a resurgence of business stronger than pre-pandemic levels at the 40,000-square-foot facility.

Daniel Laggner, founder of Santa Cruz-based Wildstag Provisions, is on a mission to protect American wildlife by selling free range game meat.

This summer’s Michelin star recognition for Chez Noir in Carmel, granted within 10 months of its opening, might seem sudden. It’s not.

Less than 400 of the majestic birds live and fly in the wild.

Eight community colleges in California are testing out a new education model, one that defines success by the skills a student learns, not the time they spend in a classroom. But changing the traditional education system isn’t easy.

A bipartisan bill would create a state ombudsperson to intervene when public records requests are denied. But an advocacy group is concerned that it will encourage state agencies to go to court.

The Legislature is approving lots of significant bills in the final days of the session. But the final call is up to the governor, and he isn’t shy about using his veto pen.

Nearly a third of K-12 students statewide were chronically absent in 2020-21, more than three times the pre-pandemic rate. Some school officials fear that pattern is becoming the new normal.

California wildfires every year emit as much carbon as almost 2 million cars, posing a threat to efforts to battle climate change.