Monterey County News

Firefighters battled fires throughout Northern California on Tuesday, from Mendocino County south to the Big Sur area in Monterey County , after an "unprecedented" lightning storm sparked more than 800 ...

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A man has been convicted of murdering his brother-in-law, stabbing his sister and trying to kill a niece and two nephews by ordering them into the family's Prunedale mobile home and torching the place.

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U. S. Coast Guard personnel and biologists on Sunday risked their lives to save eight endangered California Condors trapped at a by wildfires in Monterey County.

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Firefighters in northern California Sunday were dealing with spot wildfires sparked by hundreds of lightning strikes in Santa Cruz and Monterey counties.

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Thunderstorms sparked as many as 75 wildfires in a wilderness area in far Northern California on Saturday as officials farther south got close to containing a blaze that destroyed several homes and forced ...

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The Indians Fire that has burned more than 50,000 acres of Monterey County vegetation since June 8 became 50 percent contained Friday, fire officials announced.

There is still no estimated time for when the fire will be contained but suppression costs have already reached just over $25 million.

The fire, burning largely within the Los Padres National Forest, has destroyed two residences, 13 outbuildings and threatened more than 1,300 structures, mostly homes.

Investigators believe an escaped campfire started the rage that has injured nine firefighters and ripped through 50,320 acres of land.

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A shift in the weather is expected to make things more difficult for firefighters battling a wildfire in a remote area of Monterey County.

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State and federal officials Thursday suspended California's aerial spraying program to combat the crop-eating light brown apple moth in the Bay Area and other urban locations, after months of protests, lawsuits and media scrutiny.

CBS 5 Investigates has previously reported that the pheromone pesticide spraying program may not work and that the moth is not a threat to crops.

State Secretary of Food and Agriculture A.G. Kawamura, apparently in reaction to the growing public pressure, announced Thursday afternoon that all plans to send up planes to spray pheromones to fight the moth in urban areas throughout the state were canceled.

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After more than a year of heated controversy, state and federal agriculture officials announced Thursday they have dropped plans to spray urban areas in the Bay Area and Monterey Bay region to eradicate the ...

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As of 8 a.m., the fire, which began 11 miles west of King City, had burned 47,012 acres since June 8 and caused a voluntary fire evacuation Wednesday.

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