SF News Illegal Marijuana Farmer Found Guilty for Starting the 2020 Dolan Fire The Dolan Fire that killed a firefighter and 12 California condors was started intentionally, and the 31-year-old illegal marijuana grower who started it was found guilty of arson on Thursday.
SF News Colorado Fire Is Now 85% Contained, All Road Closures and Evacuation Orders Lifted Since starting over a week ago, the rare January wildfire near Big Sur is currently at least 85% contained — up from 75% yesterday — as of Saturday morning; many recruited fire engines and crews have now also returned to their respective home stations.
SF News Fire Near Big Sur Now 55% Contained; Was Sparked By Ember From Burn Pile The Colorado Fire, still burning since Friday in Monterey County, was sparked by an ember from a burn pile on a nearby residential property, according to Cal Fire.
SF News Humpday Headlines: Highway 1 Closed Due to Big Sur Rockslides The SF School Board passed a balanced budget on Tuesday avoiding a state takeover, alleged retail thieves were busted in Vallejo, and a section of Highway 1 in Big Sur remains closed to traffic after multiple rockslides.
SF News Willow Fire In Monterey County Grows to 2,900 Acres, 0% Containment The Willow Fire, which was sparked five nights ago in a remote area of Monterey County east of Big Sur, between the burn scars of two recent large wildfires, continues to grow, but weather conditions slowed its growth on Monday.
SF News Willow Fire Near Big Sur Prompts Evacuation for Tassajara Zen Center A wildfire broke out Thursday night in the Los Padres National Forest, just north of the burn scar from last year's Dolan Fire, and right beside the area that burned in 2016's Soberanes Fire.
Arts & Entertainment Pfeiffer Falls Trail at Big Sur Reopens Friday After 13-Year Closure After a 2008 wildfire destroyed much of the infrastructure of the most popular hiking trail in Big Sur, it's taken all these years to complete a $2 million project to replace it all. But now the public will finally get to hike down to Pfeiffer Falls once again, starting Friday.
SF News Highway 1 Washout Repaired, Road Reopens Months Early The roadwork is complete in record time and Gov. Gavin Newsom was on hand for the reopening of Highway 1 today in Big Sur.
SF News This Drone Footage Shows Just How Bad the Washout South of Big Sur Really Is The massive atmospheric river downpour that drenched California — especially here in NorCal — caused a stretch of Highway 1 in Big Sur to dive right into the ocean; this Caltrans’ drone footage shows just how much actually dove off the cliffside.
SF News Big Sur Tribe Gets Little Sur Land Back, 250 Years After It Was Colonized Yes, there is a Little Sur, and 1,200 acres of it are going back to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County in the first-ever granting back of their lands.
SF News Two Dead After Rental Car Plunges Off Big Sur Cliff and Catches Fire Two people are dead after their car went off a cliff and crashed 300 feet below the roadway along Highway 1 south of Big Sur early Thursday.
SF News Man Killed By Park Rangers In Big Sur Was Prime Suspect In Milpitas Freeway Murder A man who was fatally shot Saturday by park rangers in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park was wanted in connection with a shooting earlier this month on highway 680 in Milpitas.
SF News Big Sur Resident Launches, Removes Instagram Account To Shame Disrespectful Tourists Now that tourists have come swarming back wanting to take selfies from Big Sur's scenic vistas, one local resident launched an Instagram account solely devoted to shaming tourists who misbehave or otherwise disrespect the landscape.
SF News Big Sur To Reopen To Traffic Next Week As Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge Gets Replaced The wait is over and long-suffering Big Sur area businesses will once again be accessible from Highway 1 starting next Friday, the 13th of October. Caltrans crews have been working around the clock
SF News Massive Landslide In Big Sur Won't Get New Road For At Least A Year #BigSurLandslide fly around May 27, preliminary computer animation. Roughly 13 acres of new #California land! pic.twitter.com/PoKZL5WZBI— USGS Coastal Change (@USGSCoastChange) June 1, 2017 The Mud Creek Slide in the southern
SF News Video: Time-Lapse Of Big Sur Bridge Construction Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge in Big Sur, which has been in the process of being replaced after the former began collapsing into the canyon earlier this year, is now slated for an early October
SF News They're Just Going To Build A Road On Top Of That Big Sur Landslide If you can't dig under a problem, you may as well climb over it. That's what Caltrans is concluding with regard to that quarter mile of Pacific Coast Highway 1 that was completely
SF News Trail Opens To Public Making Big Sur Accessible Again, By Foot Anyway A trail that had previously only technically been open to locals has now been made accessible to the public, giving at least Northern Californians and tourists coming from the north a way in
SF News What It's Like To Walk Around Big Sur These Days, With Almost No Cars Into the Big Surreal: 36 Hours in California’s Isolated, Lonely Island https://t.co/Kggyi9xAQL— KQED (@KQED) June 5, 2017 California Report reporter John Sepulvado, along with a friend, decided to spend
SF News Big Sur Landslide Added 13 Acres To Coastline #BigSurLandslide fly around May 27, preliminary computer animation. Roughly 13 acres of new #California land! pic.twitter.com/PoKZL5WZBI— USGS Coastal Change (@USGSCoastChange) June 1, 2017 Scientists with the US Geological Survey, who
SF News No One Knows How To Clean Up Big Sur Landslide, Or How Much It's Going To Cost Landslide leaves engineers to ponder options for Highway 1 in #BigSur. via @kurtisalexanderhttps://t.co/H3Vkbpu8sv pic.twitter.com/5MM76W4DyJ— SFChronicle (@sfchronicle) May 26, 2017 No doubt, eventually, it will get cleaned up
SF News Big Sur Landslide Being Called The Biggest In State History Massive landslide brings new level of isolation to Big Sur https://t.co/mwFBhy5Hvd pic.twitter.com/H2MsAmiByU— SFGate (@SFGate) May 23, 2017 Last weekend's massive landslide at Mud Creek along Highway 1
SF News Video: Massive Mudslide Cuts Off Yet Another Part Of Hwy 1 Near Big Sur .mcclatchy-embed{position:relative;padding:40px 0 56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;max-width:100%}.mcclatchy-embed iframe{position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%} More bad news today out of Big
SF News Whale With Head Entangled In Metal Frame Headed To Big Sur, Volunteers Sought This is no ordinary whale watch in the Monterey area. Instead, it's what could be a life or death rescue mission. A gray whale last sighted off Piedras Blancas on Wednesday and expected
SF News Video: Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge Collapses In Big Sur After several days of trying, Caltrans crews succeeded in knocking the condemned Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge into the canyon on Saturday. Two thirds of it anyway. As CBS 5 reports, most of the bridge
