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Moss Landing Power Plant Fire last night
January 17, 2025, 5:58 a.m. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS SETS EMERGENCY MEETING TO DEAL WITH MOSS LANDING FIRE Last night's disastrous fire at the Vistra battery storage facility at the Moss Landing power...
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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…
This fall, registered nurses of the California Nurses Association at Salinas Valley Health were on a campaign to win a new strong contract in bargaining negotiations, including an informational picket in October and culminating on Dec. 9 with a pledge…
In their second meeting since seating a new mayor and councilmembers, the Pacific Grove City Council wasted no time making a bold move to create a business liaison position with the possibility of eliminating the all-volunteer Economic Development Commission in…
Founded as a business organization in 1915, the Kiwanis Club now serves millions of children worldwide.
‘Tis a crabless Christmas season this year, again.
MONTEREY COUNTY — See Monterey, the destination marketing organization for Monterey County, recently released the Monterey County Tourism 2030 Roadmap (MCT 2030), a collaborative strategic plan created to guide the local hospitality and tourism industry through myriad changes between now …
The City of Seaside is finally reckoning with market forces with respect to cannabis, and reducing the allowed number of cannabis dispensaries from nine to three, while letting the existing six dispensaries continue operating so long as they choose.
Immigrants form the backbone of Monterey County’s two largest industries, agriculture and hospitality, both of which are experiencing labor shortages.
Four years ago, Liz and Kelvin Jacobs of Wild Fish restaurant in Pacific Grove were leaders in the early days of the pandemic, investing $50,000 in construction of a sturdy parklet with wind protection and heaters for chilly days, built…
So-called “backyard breeding,” the breeding of cats or dogs with no regulation, is a problem the City of Seaside has faced for years. At least in part, that’s because the city hasn’t required a permit for breeders. On Nov. 7,…
MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Board of Supervisors has approved a hiring freeze for county positions funded by the General Fund discretionary revenue.
“This is a local story about a global issue, the future of water. In a three-part series of field reports and podcasts, Bay City News reporter Ruth Dusseault looks at the tunnel’s stakeholders, its engineering challenges, and explores the preindustrial …
Erik Chalhoub here. I first learned about cooperative businesses while reporting on an article about Ace Hardware years ago. Known as a co-op, such businesses are not controlled by a single owner; rather they are owned by the workers of…
MONTEREY COUNTY — The imbalance between housing supply and demand is a key challenge to economic growth in Monterey County, according to a new report that makes clear the need for increasing housing supply.
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…
A coalition of economic development agencies along the Central Coast released a report Oct. 1 outlining the opportunities—and challenges—in growing the local economy. Now, the Uplift Central Coast Coalition has opened grant applications to help realize those opportunities.
A hotel construction boom is underway in Monterey County, presenting both an opportunity and a challenge, says Rob O’Keefe, president and CEO of See Monterey. Done right, it could increase tourism revenue, already a $3 billion industry. Done wrong, new…
A report released Tuesday, Oct. 1 determined that only 6.4 percent of hospitality jobs along the Central Coast qualify as “quality,” defined as those that pay a "living wage," among other factors.
One of the largest mushroom producers in the United States, Monterey Mushrooms, will be closing its 275-acre Royal Oaks facility in North Monterey County. In a WARN letter issued to the California Employment Development Department, the company reports that 605…
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