Monterey County Statewide Articles

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California law requires insurance plans to cover medically necessary mental health and addiction treatment. That doesn’t always happen.

Parking ticket enforcement is about to amp up in San Francisco in weeklong surges.

Based on the 2021 tax year, the top 1% of California earners paid virtually half – 49.9% -- of the state personal income tax. But the top 1% paid 38.7% of the income tax in 2023.

McKinley Elementary has designs to modernize its campus. But plans are being delayed, and costs are rising since dangerous vapors were found in the soil.

The Affordable Connectivity Program, which offers a $30 subsidy, helping millions of households across the U.S. connect to the internet, is slated to expire.

Giant sun shades, 40-foot-tall air filters, stratospheric sulfur injections: Here are some of the wild and wondrous ways we might save the planet.

MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

MANTI, Utah — Garrett Clark estimates he has spent about six years in the Sanpete County Jail, a plain concrete building perched on a dusty hill just outside this small, rural town where he grew up.

North America's 2021 fire season, including massive Northern California blazes, was made worse by a supercharged heat dome. What did the supercharging? Climate change.

Critics condemn the accreditation of a teacher preparation program they say ignores important new standards for teaching reading.

Each year, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books draws authors representing diverse genres, from established figures to emerging talents, and attendees who engage with panels and discussions, storytelling sessions, book signings and interactive exhibits.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy Alfredo 'Freddy' Flores died on Saturday six months after a fire at a department training range.

Ephraim Matthew Hunter, 29, was arrested on suspicion of breaking into the home of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass early Sunday.

Sunday is Day 2, the last day of the book festival on the USC campus. This year, more than 200 events featured hundreds of participants, including authors.

A trash can that showed up on a normally quiet street contained the body of a woman.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is running a new abortion ad in Alabama and working with Democrats in Arizona to provide abortion access to its residents.

Freed of responsibilities as speaker, the Bakersfield Republican can devote himself to what's long been his forte: campaigns and elections. Payback is part of his agenda.

Philanthropic and real estate leaders react with hope and skepticism to Mayor Karen Bass' plan to use outside donations to buy real estate.

California has released 500,000 salmon into the Klamath River. As dams are removed, the fish will be some of the first to return to a free-flowing river.