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PACIFIC GROVE, Calif. — Walking the oceanfront footpath toward the fabled fish-packing warehouses of Cannery Row, Randy Sabado stops at a historical mural. As always, he grimaces.

Whale watchers in California’s Monterey Bay on Tuesday happily made way for a red-footed booby as the seabird landed on the rail as if to become just another passenger.

MONTEREY, California — Seventeen Mile Drive along the California coast is paved with testosterone.

A judge is moving the Kristin Smart murder trial nearly 150 miles after ruling last month that her accused killer couldn’t get a fair trial in San Luis Obispo County

The vehicle hauling 6,000 pounds of payload traveled the 150-mile drive south from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge to the Bixby Bridge in Monterey. 

HBO series filmed in Monterey, California

SAN JOSE, Calif. — After a two-year COVID hiatus, the massive California Roots Music and Arts Festival is returning to Monterey with an eye-popping lineup of reggae, hip-hop and roots music acts, including rapper Ice Cube, dancehall king Sean Paul, reggae star Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, and ska-punk band Sublime…

MONTEREY, Calif. — Gripped by drought, communities along California’s coast are exploring innovations and investments to ensure residents have access to drinking water. But desalinating seawater, one proposed solution, has provoked heated debate, as some environmentalists say the process is inefficient, expensive and unneeded.