Moss Landing News

Boots planted on the floor of his boat in Monterey Harbor, Bryan Lucas hoists his only catch of the day: a sparkling 17-pound Chinook salmon caught May 17 off Pebble Beach.a © "The fish have been real spread out, so it's kind of been hit and miss," he says.

California State University announced that Brian Maurer of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories' Biological Oceanography Lab won a top award for research in Biological and Agricultural Sciences.

A young male mountain lion tranquilized and rescued after it was trapped for hours in an aqueduct near downtown Santa Cruz is being released into the wild Thursday, a state Department of Fish and Wildlife spokeswoman said.

At Quail Hollow Ranch in Ben Lomond, I've seen the gopher-eating great blue heron and the mountain lion that hides in a small grove of trees across from the pond and takes his deer kill from the nearby fields.

The Haute Enchilada CafA© & Galerias Launches Its New Social Club Social Club Launches With Three Series: Latin Dance, Art of the Spirit and California Wines Series MOSS LANDING -- The Haute Enchilada CafA© & Galerias will be launching its new Social Club this April.

The Watsonville bugler began volunteering to play "Taps" at funerals of veterans when he was just a child.

Translucent swimmers, comb jellies come in a variety of forms. New genetic data suggest that these relatively complex animals may have evolved before, not after, sponges.

As a boy, Rick Verlini was inspired by the tales of Ernest Shackleton's exploration of the Antarctic and of the voyages of oceanic discovery by James Cook and Ferdinand Magellan.

Before Castro and communism, Cuba had the Buena Vista Social Club, a members-only alliance of musicians who gathered to eat, drink, dance and play.