Dennis L. Taylor

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 ...

MONTEREY – A trio of Monterey Peninsula recycled water customers netted a statewide award as Recycled Water Customers of the Year by a national trade association.

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CARMEL – A three-way nonpartisan race for the top official in Carmel is between a long-time public servant, a nonprofit leader and a sitting City Council member.

CARMEL >> Two sitting Carmel City Council members have opted not to run for reelection, leaving five candidates battling for two seats on the dais this election day.

The position of the county is clear in that a “quarter-million people downstream from the confluence of the Salinas River depend on the county maintaining its current water rights.”