Seaside News

Soft thuds and shouts from the martial arts class next door carry through the walls of the Peace Resource Center's back room.

A 25-year-old Seaside man has admitted raping a woman after he broke into her house and attacked her with a hammer.

SEASIDE, Calif- Ernesto Alonzo Avina, a 25-year-old Seaside resident, pled guilty to committing forcible rape and forcible oral copulation during the commission of a burglary.

Blues singer Barbara Morrison, who performed recently at the Monterey Bay Blues Festival, headlines the opening of Seaside's Sunday Blues series at Laguna Grande Park this weekend.

Follow-up: Who'd you let read your diary? What movie genre would it be? KENNY CURTIS Tattoo Artist Seaside A: I don't know.

Thirty seconds was all it took to boost singer Alycia Nichole's singing career. The Seaside High 2001 grad won the opportunity to collaborate with Wyclef Jean after submitting a 30-second Twitter video audition as part of his "More Bottles" Remix Contest.

The deadline to submit proposals to build a highway-front hotel in Seaside adjacent to the Laguna Grande Lake came and went with no complete applications received, said assistant City Manager Jill Anderson.

July Fourth fireworks explode over Monterey Bay in 2006. The city's Park and Recreation Commission is recommending that the show be canceled to save money.

Seaside's 60th annual July Fourth parade held Sunday featured 128 entries, up from 102 last year, and had everything from South Seas Island dancers to Latin bands, classic cars, historic military vehicles, color guards, clowns and floats.

On Tuesday, July 7, Chili's at 1349 Canyon Del Rey in Seaside and 1940 N. Davis Road in Salinas will support The SPCA for Monterey County.

It is high noon for public opinion about a new water supply. The state Public Utilities Commission will hold local public hearings on July 13 and 14 in Monterey and Seaside on three competing options, all designed to reduce the over-pumping of the Carmel River and the Seaside Groundwater Basin.

Perched on a chair in Seaside's Peace Resource Center, Sylvia Shih sweetly explains why she doesn't like the word "hero." "It is really overused," she says in a clipped Mandarin accent.

This year's collection of Local Heroes are an unusually diverse group. They include a veteran Seaside peace activist, a Latina LGBT rights advocate and a businessman who, like a Frank Capra movie, decided to buy his picture frame stores back because he didn't like the human consequences of shooting it down.

While the world buzzed noisily about the biggest celebrity death in decades, Monterey County's food and wine scene quietly lost two beloved rock stars of its own.

Eunice Diaz, of Monterey Bay Christian Center Youth Ministry, tries to draw customers to a fireworks stand on Fremont Boulevard in Seaside.

SEASIDE, Calif.- A Seaside woman was killed Sunday morning in a crash on Highway 1. California Highway Patrol investigators report the 48-year old woman was driving south on Highway 1 just north of Fremont Street in Seaside when she lost control of her car and crashed into the center divide; she was ejected from her seat and was pronounced dead at ...

A Seaside neighborhood had to be evacuated Thursday afternoon after police and a SWAT team responded to a shooting in the 1600 block Lowell Street.

MONTEREY, Calif,- Eight Mexican nationals with ties to violent street gangs in Monterey County are facing state criminal charges or deportation this morning following a day-long enforcement operation involving U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and several local law enforcement agencies.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement along with local authorities on Thursday arrested eight Mexican nationals on alleged gang and drug charges, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office announced today.

Monterey County Sheriff's SWAT team was called about 5:45 p.m. to search a house in Seaside for a gunman.