April 25 — A STATE agency this week imposed rigid spending restrictions on seven California hospitals it says charge their patients too much for medical services, including Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and Salinas Valley Health, both of which criticized ... Read More

April 25 — DESPITE CLAIMS at recent public hearings that clearing brush to create fire breaks and defensible spaces in Big Sur makes the danger worse, local fire officials say the opposite is true and that aggressive removal of fire-prone trees and shrubs is critically needed to protect rural communities ... Read More

April 24 — A FORMER Carmel Unified School District Board member who was arrested for election fraud just a few weeks before voting day last November — and subsequently lost — also foundered in her efforts to convince a judge ... Read More