Monarch butterflies from the western United States have arrived in Santa Cruz and other parts of the California Coast, clumping in the thousands on branches of Monterey pine, coastal redwoods and ...

As a major storm hits Monterey County, county officials are ramping up emergency preparedness efforts and advise residents to take safety precautions.

Director Miguel Garcia Mendoza and a cast with deep local roots spend a week shooting the 1970s-set thriller across Greenfield, Salinas, and King City — finding inspiration, community, and hometown ...

• Many plants have quiet explosions of white blossoms in cold weather. Coyote brush (Baccharis pilularis) produces white to ...

With trees that have been in place for milennia, and a river running through it, this park offers fishing, camping, and ...

Dawson thinks the Fog Research project could be used to answer questions about the impact of fog on the area’s biodiversity. “Once we document what these patterns are, let’s figure out what ...

Until recently, little was known about how memory functions in trees which experience decades, even centuries, of shifting ...

The future of coastal fog is anything but clear. Daniel Fernandez, a Cal State Monterey Bay professor and electrical engineer ...

There is so much to do in on a road trip to Monterey County, and now is the time to visit, as things begin returning to normal.

Deanna Cole is a Vacaville resident and one of the organizers behind Keep Vacaville Safe, a movement in response to the ...

If you want California without the rush, these small towns deliver the views, the quiet, and the kind of stops that stretch a ...