Dennis L. Taylor

SALINAS – Monterey County elected officials on Thursday greenlit placing a 1% sales tax increase on the November ballot to try and plug budget

SALINAS – The final phase of a 1,384-unit housing development outside Marina that's been in the works for a couple of decades received a conditional approval Tuesday by Monterey County elected officials.

The civil grand jury, which is empowered only to make recommendations, identified three findings and subsequent recommendations that it believed would benefit county r ...

SALINAS – A Monterey County Civil Grand Jury report citing findings that were often critical of the way the county Sheriff's Office engages with or

The Monterey County Civil Grand Jury report, titled “Fentanyl: Our Youth in Crisis,” cited opportunities for the Monterey County Office of Education to provide outreach efforts to students and pare…

SALINAS – Walter Foo Wong, a long-retired Monterey County health official known for his dogged pursuit of farmworker protection from pesticide poisoning, died June 29. Neither his age nor the cause of death was disclosed.

Marina Coast Water District is closing in on a $1.8 million project to replace more than 2,000 feet of a water main along California Avenue in Marina after crews discovered failures in the system a…

A Monterey County Superior Court judge issued a tentative ruling in favor of the Monterey Peninsula water district's voter-mandated acquisition of California American Water Company's Monterey Peninsula operations on Friday.

Police can only act on what they know, one of the responding officers said in a court hearing. What they understood was that there was a male adult violently throwing furniture around and was a possible threat to his mother and others.

The California Sixth District Court of Appeals sided with the Monterey Peninsula Taxpayers Association late last week in a lawsuit that claimed a fee charged to ratepayers should ...