Local News

KING CITY — A search warrant was served Friday morning in King City as part of an ongoing investigation into last October’s attempted homicide on Amherst Drive. Detectives from the South County Major Crimes Unit (MCU), a collaborative unit of the Greenfield and King City...

SALINAS VALLEY — Hartnell Community College District on Nov. 19 launched a nationwide search for a permanent superintendent/president to be appointed this spring and start work in July. Members of the district’s Governing Board voted unanimously at their regular meeting on Nov. 16 to approve...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County will lift its indoor mask requirement Monday for all county facilities except those that are covered by ongoing state mandates like jails and health care facilities. The county said in a statement that it will lift mask requirements and health...

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey County Health Department has issued a reminder to area businesses that all food facilities are not allowed to host live music and entertainment. The order comes from the state health guidelines issued in July, but which recently received clarification last week...

BIG SUR — Evacuations have been issued for a wildfire that broke out Thursday night in the Los Padres National Forest about 7 miles west of the Arroyo Seco Campground. The fire, named the Willow Fire, has grown to at least 1,500 acres and is...

KING CITY — King City Council recently awarded the bid for implementing the Downtown Streetscape Project to Monterey Peninsula Engineering (MPE), which started construction on June 12.   The project will expand the corner bulbouts, redesign the medians and add decorative crosswalks on Broadway Street, from...

KING CITY — Members from King City Rural 4-H have been restoring the parking lot planters at City of King Park. The multi-week project began Oct. 17 with the planting of drought-tolerant plants, and has been done in collaboration with King City in Bloom and...

TREE RECYCLING SALINAS VALLEY — Salinas Valley residents are being reminded by Waste Management that Christmas trees can either be recycled curbside if cut to fit within the green waste cart with the lid closed on the regularly scheduled collection day, or dropped off for...

JOLON — Fort Hunter Liggett Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation will host the 18th annual Youth Fishing Derby on Saturday, April 24, at Del Venturi Reservoir, which will be stocked with about 1,700 pounds of rainbow trout. Children up to age 15...

BRADLEY — Monterey County Public Works, Facilities and Parks is reminding the community and visitors that warning signs remain posted at Lake San Antonio due to toxic blue-green algae. Early last month, water samples showed lake water contained cyanotoxins, toxins produced by blue-green algae. Follow-up...