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State prison systems across the United States have begun allowing visitors for the first time since the pandemic started, presenting challenges for facilities that want to balance much-needed contact between inmates and their families with the need to limit the spread of COVID-19 in...

California has added interactive maps for several counties in the state, including three in the greater Bay Area, as part of its ongoing Tsunami Hazard Area project mapping the entire coastline of California. The California Geologic Survey released maps Tuesday for Alameda, Monterey and San...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Cannabis Program is in the process of assessing how communities have been impacted by cannabis prohibition and the War on Drugs and exploring how to more equitably develop this new industry.  Tier 1 funding from the California Office of Business...

KING CITY — Elementary and middle schools in King City will reopen to a hybrid model on April 12, as decided by the board members of King City Union School District in a March 10 meeting. Board members approved a staggered return plan, where TK...

KING CITY — King City Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture will host an online Lunch and Learn on Thursday, March 25, at noon, in lieu of its non-pandemic luncheons. The topic of the discussion will be fire safety and security for home and business. A fire...

WASHINGTON — The Postal Service unveiled a 10-year strategic plan on Tuesday that would raise prices and lengthen promised delivery times, among other measures, in an effort to recoup $160 billion in projected losses over the next decade. The announcement, which comes as the beleaguered...

Editor’s Note: The following profile is an excerpt from Amy Wu’s upcoming book, “From Farms to Incubators: Women Innovators Revolutionizing How Our Food is Grown,” which tells the stories of women entrepreneurs who are transforming agriculture through high technology. Jackie Vazquez spends the majority of...

BACH CONCERTO SEASIDE — Sustainable energy pioneer, author, filmmaker and musician Bob Danziger has teamed up with CSUMB co-sponsors Music and Performing Arts Department and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, as well as others, on an online celebration of the 300th anniversary of J.S. Bach’s famous...

More than two months after he was fully vaccinated against COVID, a doctor in New York woke up with a headache and a dull, heavy feeling of fatigue. A fever and chills soon followed, and his senses of taste and smell began to fade. This,...

KING CITY — A King City teenager has been arrested in connection with a shooting at an inhabited dwelling Sunday evening. King City police officers responded to the 100 block of Keats Avenue regarding several gunshots being fired on March 21 at about 7:45 p.m. An...