SF News Monterey Teens Fight For The Environment, Media Frames Them As Villains In 2023, teen-led Protect Monterey Bay convinced the city to restrict cruise ship landings to curb pollution. Although ships may anchor, companies refused dock staffing, halting tourism. Merchants decried lost revenue while media blamed the teens, ignoring industry pollution.
SF News One Man Killed After Being Trapped Under High Surf Debris In Santa Cruz, Two Missing Near Monterey A man is dead in Santa Cruz after being trapped under the debris of the pier-smashing waves, and two people are missing near Monterey after being swept into the ocean, as the raging high surf conditions take a deadly toll.
SF News Trump’s Defense Secretary Pick Was Investigated for Sexual Assault in Monterey There’s already dirty laundry galore with many of Trump’s cabinet picks, and the latest shoe to drop comes from Monterey County, where Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth was investigated for sexual assault in 2017.
SF News Monterey Chef Indicted For $4 Million In COVID Relief Fraud Scheme A chef and caterer based in Monterey is in hot water with the feds over an alleged $4 million that he bilked from the government during the pandemic, which prosecutors say he used to buy real estate in Belize and fund a new business venture.
SF News [Update] Small Plane Crashes Straight Into House In Monterey; Two Dead A twin-engine Cessna plowed right into a house near the Monterey Airport Tuesday morning, and while the house was empty, the pilot, a passenger, and a dog all did in the crash.
SF News Mike Pence Is Stopping Through The Bay Area and Monterey Next Week Our extra-special right-wing vice-president Mike Pence is making a couple of Republican fundraising stops in California next week, and dropping by the San Francisco Bay Area for a quick, not-easily-protested speaking engagement.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Rare Albino Baby Dolphin Spotted In Monterey Bay A rare albino dolphin calf, specifically a Risso's dolphin, was just spotted last week in Monterey Bay among a pod of Risso's dolphins. The sighting was captured on video on June 7 by
SF News Clown With Machete Terrorizes Monterey Along 101 An insane clown a little too reminiscent of Pennywise took the tomfoolery too far Wednesday afternoon, as a grown man in an evil clown costume holding what appeared to be a bloody machete
Arts & Entertainment Killer Whales Continue Putting On Show In Monterey Bay With Multiple Killings A pod of at least nine killer whales, with some other individuals joining in, have had a busy week of feeding in Monterey Bay, all as tourists excitedly watched. On Monday we saw
Arts & Entertainment Video: Watch A Pod Of Killer Whales Feasting In Monterey Bay A group of killer whale mothers and calves were seen feasting over the course of four days last week and over the weekend on the carcasses of two dead gray whales just off
SF News It's Mating Season For Harbor Seals, But Drones Could Be Killing The Mood From February through June, hundreds of harbor seals sleep, mate, sleep, give birth, and then sleep some more on beaches like one at the center of the Monterey Bay national marine sanctuary, Hopkins
Arts & Entertainment How HBO's 'Big Little Lies' Fudges Monterey Geography It's hardly the largest deception on Big Little Lies, the HBO drama starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, and Shailene Woodley as a quartet of Monterey mothers, but it's an emblematic one.
SF News Video: Killer Whales, True To Their Name, Devour Shark In Monterey Bay Waters A whale of a tale this morning from KTVU who feasted on some footage from Monterey Bay of a pod of killer whales feasting on a Sevengill shark: The video comes from Slater
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Monterey-Based Marijuana Edible Company Sued For Fraud By Investor A Northern California medical marijuana edibles maker, Altai Brands, is being sued for securities fraud by one of its investors. BuzzFeed has the news about the July 18 lawsuit, which accuses CEO Robert
SF News Monterey Gynecologist Will Do Time For Unleashing Python On Her Cheating, Snake-Fearing Husband Dr. Mary Kay Brewster bought the three- to four-foot-long python in Salinas, all cash. According to the Contra Costa Times, the 58-year-old Monterey woman with what KSBW reports was a well-regarded gynecology practice
Arts & Entertainment Video: Whales Appear Along The NorCal Coast, Leave Everyone Breathless Two different videographers caught footage of whales doing their whale thing off the coast of Northern California this weekend. In one case, a slickly professional TV news team was the first, ever, to
SF News This Nightmare Fish That Was Just Photographed In Monterey Bay Will Haunt Your Life What you are looking at is a female anglerfish, of a species known as the "black seadevil" for obvious reasons. It's pretty small (9 centimeters) and lives at depths of 1,900 feet
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Whale Watching Huge schools of anchovies moved in close to shore starting last Sunday in Monterey Bay, and the humpback whales followed. Photos like this one from Blue Ocean Whale Watch then began popping up
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Angry Public Blasts SF Restaurant Over Anti-Kid Policy That They Don't Actually Have Grotto confusion? It's an issue for two Northern California restaurants, especially when one announces they they'll give noisy kids the boot, and another says that they welcome the little critters with open arms.
SF News Some Monster Is Hunting Monterey's Adorable, Endangered Sea Otters Brace yourselves for your Monday outrage: six months ago, three male sea otters — one adult and two juveniles — were found dead near Asilomar State Beach in Pacific Grove, California. The cause of death
SF News 17 Cats Rescued From Filthy Camping Trailer After receiving a call from a concerned citizen, Monterey County officials have found and rescued 17 cats from what they describe as inhumane, hazardous, and unsafe conditions. The ten cats and seven kittens
Arts & Entertainment Video Of Baby Otter In Monterey Momentarily Distracts Entire Bay Area In Monterey, Calif., where the conditions are perfect for adorable wildlife and tourism to both thrive, a wild mother sea otter was spotted last week floating near the Monterey Bay Aquarium with a
SF News Video: 51 Cats Rescued From Hoarders Are Recovering Adorably Good news from the feline world today. After 113 kittens were found dead in two Seaside, California homes last month, the Monterey County SPCA has slowly nursed the 51 surviving adult cats back
SF News SPCA Finds 113 Dead Kittens In Raid On Cat Hoarder Aided by local police, the heroes from the Monterey County SPCA uncovered 113 dead kittens Tuesday while serving search warrants at two properties in sleepy Seaside, California. "It’s very disturbing,” SPCA humane
