November 13 — MONTEREY COUNTY’S district attorney denounced Gov. Gavin Newsom’s move to undo every death row inmate’s sentence, including those of a Carmel Valley serial killer who brutally murdered two Seaside girls and a man convicted in a thrill killing on Fisherman’s Wharf ... Read More

November 13 — THE DIFFERENCE is already striking along a 3-mile section of Del Monte Forest between Highway 68 and Lopez Road, but Cal Fire Battalion Chief Greg Leonard estimates it will be another six to eight weeks before his crews pack up their masticators and haul off the last piles of dead wood ... Read More

November 12 — WHILE MOST candidates for office in Carmel have focused on issues like preserving community character, protecting the forest and beach, and dealing with the city’s mounting retirement obligations, Mayor-elect Hans Buder has repeatedly decried the city’s population loss over the past several decades — especially families ... Read More

November 12 — YOU ONLY have to drive a few miles east of the San Luis Reservoir to start seeing the signs: “Newsom Stop Dumping Our Water into the Ocean” and “Newsom Stop Wasting Our Dam Water.” Many are homemade, and all articulate the popular Central Valley sentiment that California could do more to capture the water ... Read More