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In today’s newscast, the Santa Cruz Cal Fire unit has deployed dozens of firefighters and other resources to help fight the Palisades and Eaton fires in Southern California. Plus, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors approved a new interim housing facility in Soledad.

In today's newscast, a report from the reopening of the municipal wharf in Santa Cruz and a Salinas doctor talks about patients who came in looking jaundiced after eating mushrooms.

Monterey County healthcare providers are joining those in Santa Cruz County to encourage patients to spend more time outside with the ParkRx program.

A group of healthcare workers protested low wages, rising healthcare costs and short staffing at Watsonville Community Hospital on Thursday

More than a year and a half after a levee breach flooded the town of Pajaro, most of the $20 million in state recovery funding remains unspent.

Monterey County has been working to deliver recovery funds to Pajaro residents and businesses in the aftermath of the March 2023 floods for almost a year.

Scotts Valley, California, experienced a rare tornado on Saturday that flipped cars and injured a few people.

The USDA grant-funded project is focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from specialty crops in the Salinas Valley.

Caltrans will close Highway 1 at Rocky Creek, 12 miles south of Carmel, for 24 hours this weekend to continue construction after a landslide took out the southbound lane.

Cal State Monterey Bay students are on board the boat that carried author John Steinbeck and his friend Ed Ricketts, a biologist, to the Sea of Cortez thanks to the Western Flyer Foundation. It deploys the Western Flyer to blend science and art, stir curiosity, and introduce students to ocean science.

A new Kaiser Permanente medical center will open in Salinas, Monterey County on Jan. 2, 2025.

A project to move one bus line off of Highway 1 and, potentially, reduce commute times and greenhouse gas emissions, is inching closer to reality.

The planning commission denied an appeal that could have derailed the project

Local students will compete in NASA's Space2Pitch business accelerator this week.

University of California service and patient care workers staged a two-day strike this week after filing unfair labor practice charges with the state. The union alleges bad-faith bargaining during contract renegotiations.

The central coast is preparing for winter storms that could hit as early as this week, but Santa Cruz County is still working on road repairs from years past.

Measure N funds allowed the Pajaro Valley Health Care District to buy the hospital’s land and buildings.

The Aromas-San Juan school board changed the way its members were elected in 2022. That decision made it harder to find candidates for this election.