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The only oceanfront home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright was recently sold for $22M to local real-estate investment and development firm Esperanza Carmel, LLC. (Matthew Millman/Sotheby’s International Realty)

Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home sells for $22M in Carmel

March 1, 2023 at 11:41 a.m.

The one-of-a-kind, 1,400-square-foot, single-level home sits on the ocean side of Scenic Road on the southern edge of Carmel Beach, perched on a rocky promontory, it includes a small beach....

Pacific Gas and Electric Company announced Monday the commissioning of its 182.5-megawatt Tesla Megapack battery energy storage system – known as the Elkhorn Battery – located at its Moss Landing electric substation in Monterey County. (PG&E)

Tesla Megapack battery energy storage system goes online in Moss Landing

April 18, 2022 at 2:55 p.m.

Pacific Gas and Electric Co. announced on Monday that Elkhorn Battery, named for its location at its Moss Landing electric substation in Monterey County near Elkhorn Slough, has been commissioned...

Work on repairing the washout on Highway 1 at Rat Creek continues on Monday. The highway is expected to reopen by April 30. (Courtesy Caltrans)

Big Sur: Highway 1 at Rat Creek to reopen by April 30 after washout

April 9, 2021 at 3:51 p.m.

Highway 1 at Rat Creek will reopen to traffic by April 30, nearly two months ahead of the target date for the $11.5 million repair project, and after a full...

Grupo Flor is using a proprietary version of commodity trading software the company developed itself enabling its desk to connect buyers and sellers for the purchase and sale of raw cannabis materials, making it the cannabis industry’s first commodity trading desk. (Grupo Flor)

California cannabis company launches industry’s first commodity trading desk

February 19, 2020 at 3:12 p.m.

One of the largest cannabis companies in California has launched the industry’s first commodity trading desk to connect buyers and sellers in the budding cannabis industry.

An additional 18 million trees, mostly conifers, died in California since fall 2017. Even with a slow down in tree mortality since the end of a six-year drought in 2016, dead and dying trees pose a potential wildfire risk.

18.6 million more California forest trees died in 2018, U.S. Forest Service says

February 13, 2019 at 10:29 a.m.

The survey found that more than 147 million trees have died across 9.7 million acres of federal, state, local and private lands in California since a drought began in 2010,...

Looking south along Highway 1 near Nacimiento-Fergusson Road in Big Sur. - Vern Fisher — Monterey Herald file

35 miles of Highway 1 reopen, Mud Creek slide still impassable

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

Big Sur >> Caltrans reopened Highway 1 at Paul’s Slide Tuesday, meaning 35 miles of roadway is now open to the public between the massive Mud Creek slide in the...

The front entrance to Fort Ord at Lighfighter Drive in 1976. - Archival photo

Well known sign to be demolished

August 23, 2018 at 12:00 a.m.

SEASIDE >> The sign that once marked the main gateway into Ford Ord on Lightfighter Drive just off Highway 1 in Seaside, is being demolished after an $87,000 contract was...

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