Monterey County News

Monterey Regional Airport Fire engineer Darren Jones checks on Roland Shorter of Monterey as patients are treateed on the tarmac during Friday's mass casualty drill.

California's unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in 4½ years as the state experienced one of the sharpest drops in joblessness nationwide, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.

The Mt. Diablo school board will announce its choice for interim Superintendent on Monday, after officially severing ties with the superintendent and general counsel.

A Castroville man pleaded no contest to killing a 10-month-old girl and faces a sentence of 25 years to life in prison, the Monterey County District Attorney's Office said Friday.

A Salinas, California man believed to be the "John Doe" child predator sought in a nationwide manhunt this week appeared in federal court today following his capture Wednesday , about 24 hours after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations team issued a public appeal online for help tracking him down.

Officials from around the Monterey Bay gathered Wednesday at Cal State Monterey Bay to continue a regional effort at setting a high bar for reducing greenhouses gasses and achieving other environmental goals.

Police are investigating an incident that happened last week involving an Alisal Union School board member, and Supervisor Fernando Armenta and his wife.

For a variety of reasons both practical and logistical, there are very few club or nightclub-type music venues in the Carmel area, by which I mean the 1-square mile of Carmel proper and the Monterey County areas of Carmel at the mouth of the Valley and Rio Road.

Keith Decker , Kristin Brownstone , James Brady , from left, in MPC Theatre CompanyA*s production of Moss Hart's A'Light Up The Sky.A' Paper Wing Theatre Company presents Rob Foster's "Mr Bruce, Do You Swear?" Opens at 8p.m. Friday, May 17; continues at 8p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through June 1 at the Gallerie Theatre, Paper Wing Theatre Company, ... (more)

David Mirassou, sixth generation winemaker for Mirassou Winery , tells the story about his great, great, great grandparent's immigration to America.

Monterey County supervisors urged water resources agency officials to hurry up with a plan for using Salinas River water under a permit that is in danger of being revoked.

Monterey Peninsula residents may hear more about a roundabout over the next several months than college kids ever did in the 1970s wearing out their Yes albums with the 8½-minute song "Roundabout." A long-planned improvement plan for the traffic bottleneck at the main entrance to Pebble Beach, where southbound Highway 1 meets the Holman ... (more)

After being on the lam for 40 days, felon Dimitri Storm pleaded not guilty to nine charges in an Alameda County Court on Monday, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.

Harden Middle School seventh-grader Sebastian Barajas, left, and other students watch as energy passes through the air from a tesla coil to light up a fluorescent light at the Hartnell College Engineering and Physics Club booth during Friday's Career Extravaganza in Salinas.

The Monterey County District Attorney announced that 29-year old Juan Pablo Mata of Seaside was sentenced on Tuesday to felony probation and 350 days in jail.

About 40 federal agents teamed up with 60 local and state law enforcement officers to remove 24 suspected violent offenders from Monterey County streets Friday in Operation Clean Sweep, part of an ongoing quest to reduce violent crime.

Off the California coast, thousands of young California sea lions are showing up stranded, starved and in need of rescue.

A prominent Monterey County businesswoman was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison a year and a half after she was indicted on federal tax evasion charges, U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag announced Monday.

Last Wednesday, the Monterey County Planning Commission unanimously approved the last permit California American Water needed to begin the $83 million, three-year process of removing the San Clemente Dam .

A group of East Salinas residents who want to recall Mayor Joe Gunter and support embattled City Councilman Jose Castaneda are hoping that third time's a charm.