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11/13/2024
Image for display with article titled King City Courthouse Opens for Expanded Services.

The Monterey County Superior Court expanded its court services in South County to offer limited services for residents every Tuesday.

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11/08/2024
Image for display with article titled Monterey County's Incumbent State and National Legislators Are All Headed to Sweeping Victories for Another Term.

While the presidency and the U.S. Senate flipped from blue to red, Monterey County's elected representatives to state and federal office remain solidly blue, with big victories on Nov. 5 for incumbents, all Democrats.

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11/07/2024
Image for display with article titled Monterey County Board of Supervisors Approves Hiring Freeze Amid Fiscal Challenges

Monterey County Board of Supervisors has approved a hiring freeze for county positions funded by the General Fund discretionary revenue.

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11/07/2024
A summary of the November 5 meeting of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors in which discussions about appointments to several important boards and commissions took place.

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10/23/2024
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Monterey County Elections Office and the Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL) are joining efforts to offer Books and Ballots Week in South Monterey County, providing early flex voting centers at various libraries throughout the week. 

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10/16/2024
Image for display with article titled Agencies Pull Together to Get Residents Out of a Troubled Homekey Project and Into Homes.

It was an extensive collaboration that enabled Salinas to open the first state-subsidized Homekey project in Monterey County in December 2020, initially housing over 60 people who either had no homes or were on the brink of homelessness.

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10/16/2024
Learn more about the new Monterey County vacation rental ordinance which went into effect as of October 14.

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10/15/2024
Image for display with article titled The County Board of Supervisors Votes in Favor of a Hiring Freeze.

Pressured by a projected $20 million deficit for the next fiscal year, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on Tuesday, Oct. 15, to implement a hiring freeze for positions funded by General Fund discretionary revenue, as well as establish guidelines for developing exemptions to the freeze.

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10/11/2024
Image for display with article titled Vacation Rentals Ordinances to Take Effect in Parts of Monterey County on Monday

County of Monterey Vacation Rentals Ordinances, which regulate vacation rental operations in inland unincorporated Monterey County, will take effect Oct. 14.

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10/09/2024
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Ballots for the Nov. 5 Presidential General Election have begun mailing as of Oct. 3, and there are a couple of things Monterey County voters should know to get vote ready.

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10/09/2024
The tourism marketing organization See Monterey released its "Monterey County Tourism 2030 Roadmap" which outlines the opportunities and challenges facing the local tourism industry.

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10/02/2024
Image for display with article titled A Developer Takes Advantage of the Builder’s Remedy Law to Plan 127 Units Outside of Carmel.

A now-vacant 94-year-old hospital building and a row of 12 occupied cottage apartments within unincorporated Carmel just off Highway 1 could become the site of Monterey County’s first “builder’s remedy” housing development, with construction of at least 127 units of very low-, low – and moderate-income apartments and townhomes.

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10/02/2024
Image for display with article titled County Supervisors Seek Changes to Help With Enforcement of Rooster Ordinance.

Roosters were back on the agenda at the Monterey County Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday, Oct. 1.

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09/30/2024
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MONTEREY COUNTY — Effective Oct. 1, 10 branches of Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL) will be adjusting their hours of operation.

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09/30/2024
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Effective Oct. 1, 10 branches of Monterey County Free Libraries will be adjusting their hours of operation.

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09/25/2024
Image for display with article titled A Proposed Three-Year Rate Schedule for Cal Am Leads to a Battle Over How Utilities Can Bill for Water.

Proceeding number A2207001 before the California Public Utilities Commission began on July 1, 2022 when California American Water filed an application to increase revenues from ratepayers.

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09/13/2024
Image for display with article titled The Board of Supervisors Take Final Vote to Usher in Short-Term Rental Ordinances, but Not Without a Fight.

Two weeks after the Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of a new short-term rental ordinance, the board split down the same lines on Tuesday, Sept. 10, in a final approval of amendments to the county’s code.

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09/13/2024
Montery County is prohibiting parking at Bixby Bridge in Big Sur until further notice.

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09/12/2024
Image for display with article titled Pajaro Farmworker Housing Project Gets the OK From Majority of Supervisors.

A farmworker housing project in Pajaro got the green light from a majority of the Monterey County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Sept. 10.

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09/11/2024
In their September 10 meeting, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the environmental review of the Carmel Lagoon flood control project, in draft since 2016.

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09/04/2024
Image for display with article titled The Board of Supervisors Approve Short-Term Rental Ordinances After Years of Work.

Taking about 14 years of work, the County of Monterey is a step closer to having a short-term rental ordinance, after the Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday, Aug. 27 in favor of draft versions that had been vetted and unanimously approved by the Planning Commission in June.

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08/19/2024
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Monterey County Elections Department has assigned the letter “T” to the measure on the November ballot requesting a half-cent increase in the King City sales tax.

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08/15/2024
Image for display with article titled From a to Z, and Beyond—Monterey County Elections Prepares a Long List of Local Ballot Measure.

The United States presidential election has been getting a lot of ink as Donald Trump and Kamala Harris campaign around the country. But there's a lot at stake locally as well.

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08/15/2024
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Monterey County Environmental Health Bureau announced last week the relaunch of a mobile app that shares health inspection information for all restaurants, markets and food trucks.

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08/07/2024
Image for display with article titled Monterey County’s Risk for Covid-19 Rises, Following a Big Surge Statewide and Across the Nation.

For weeks this summer, the number of cases of Covid-19 in California’s large metropolitan areas were quickly increasing, as well as across the country, driven by a group of highly contagious variants dubbed FLiRT.

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08/07/2024
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Monterey County District Attorney’s Office is warning residents of scammers impersonating law enforcement.

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08/07/2024
Image for display with article titled Monterey County Crops Fall 6.1% in Value Last Year

Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner Juan Hidalgo has announced the release of the 2023 Annual Crop and Livestock Report, which recorded a production gross value of just over $4.35 billion, reflecting a 6.1% decrease from 2022.

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08/06/2024
Image for display with article titled Judge Orders Jail’s Health Care Contractor to Prove Its Compliance With Settlement in Advance of December Hearing.

A federal judge on Aug. 1 ordered Wellpath, the County of Monterey’s health care contractor in the jail, to submit a report by Aug. 16 outlining how it is complying with the terms of a 2015 settlement.

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07/31/2024
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The County of Monterey and its health care contractor in the jail, Wellpath, continue to be “substantially” out of compliance with the terms of a 2015 settlement, according to a neutral third-party monitor’s report.

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07/24/2024
Image for display with article titled Lake San Antonio Reopens After Fish Die-Off Event

County of Monterey Parks and Lakes Division, Environmental Health Bureau and Water Resources Agency staff reported Monday that data and testing results from water samples taken in the wake of a massive fish die-off at Lake San Antonio were “inconclusive,” but that a possible cause of the incident could be due to a natural algae phenomenon spurred on by high heat, which lowered the dissolved oxygen concentrations causing the fish to suffocate.

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