Monterey County Business, Economy & Jobs Articles

The very popular and successful restaurant parklets that put Pacific Grove on the map as a dining destination during the Covid-19 pandemic will continue for at least one more year, after the P.G. City Council voted unanimously on May 11…

One thing keeping workers out of the workforce: Access to affordable child care and preschool. Many parents, especially women, haven’t returned to the workforce because they cannot afford to. According to the Economic Policy Institute, infant care in California costs…

Juan Martinez worked tirelessly to document and preserve farmworker history on the Central Coast. He was an activist, a storyteller and an energetic advocate for the Salinas Valley. After a years-long battle with cancer, Martinez died in his sleep on…

The 'Washington Post' descends on the "capital of Blue State America" to expose the ongoing homeless crisis in Sacramento.

Elon Musk may be the latest, but billionaires have been buying media outlets for decades. What does that mean for the control of news and information at a time when a free press is more important than ever?

Over the past 40 years, tech giant Microsoft has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense and individual branches of the military executing billions of dollars in contracts. Now it’s about to embed itself on the campus of the Naval…

SALINAS — Multiple agencies from across Monterey County responded to a four-alarm fire that severely damaged Taylor Farms’ food production facility in Salinas last Wednesday. The 225,000-square-foot building, located in the 1200 block of Abbott Street, had been closed for …

Moss Landing is further solidifying its position as the world's battery storage hub. Pacific Gas and Electric announced Monday, April 15 that its new, Tesla-powered 182.5-megawatt battery storage system at its Moss Landing substation is now operational.

The city of Marina selected an eco-friendly vision for its newest planned hotel, which would be built in front of the Marina Shopping Center near Highway 1. The land is currently empty, but it was once home to rotted buildings…

SALINAS — Regular crowds of at least 3,000 have attended the weekly Salinas Farmers Market since its move to Main Street earlier this year. The Saturday market has become a small community event, drawing hundreds of people within the first …

On April 13, officials representing the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute will present to the County Planning Commission a proposal to build a new 33,000 square foot research facility to replace its existing building at 7600 Sandholdt Road, which it’s…

Carmel restaurant owners suspected that a loud minority was behind the push to end the village’s temporary parklets, so they gathered their own data. They sent surveys to Carmel residents, with one survey coming back with a 91 percent approval…

Should California pay reparations to descendants of enslaved African-American people? A state task force studying the topic is ready to issue its first report in June.

A new hotel approved by Pacific Grove is set to be the largest on the Monterey Peninsula.

Unforeseen circumstances – a sudden illness or an eviction notice – can put low-income families in a predicament: Get the money they need to stay afloat in the short term, but risk falling into clutches of predatory lenders.

Future generations might one day point to King City’s renaissance as a textbook example of good government and long-term crisis management. Once a thriving Salinas Valley city, the departure of one of its largest employers in the early 2000s triggered…

The defense industry built modern California. Though military dollars have declined, the military-industrial complex still plays a major role in shaping the state. Here’s how.

KING CITY — King City’s million-dollar downtown streetscape plan is among the eight community projects in California’s 20th District that were included in the federal government’s FY 2022 Appropriations package. Rep. Jimmy Panetta announced March 11 that the federal funds, …

Gov. Gavin Newsom sparked excitement locally last July when he signed SB 156, securing a historic $6 billion investment in high-speed, broadband internet access. The money, anchored by federal pandemic relief, would finance infrastructure to connect underserved Californians – many…

Without federal dollars, the county government would be projected to end this year in a deficit, spending more money than came in. But with a roughly $32 million stimulus check from the federal government, the county is projected to end…