Moss Landing News

Detectives in the agriculture crime unit at the Monterey County Sheriff's Department recovered stolen farm equipment Wednesday and arrested an ex-con on suspicion of two counts of grand theft, one charge each of possessing stolen property, conspiracy and violating his probation, authorities reported.

A second attempt is being made to rescue an injured sea lion lounging on a dock in Moss Landing that is entangled in wire.

Update 3:30pm: The injured sea lion is back in the water after another failed attempt.

A man wanted for theft and drug-related crimes led Santa Cruz police on a high-speed car chase through the Westside late Sunday that eventually ended when he ditched his car in the Circles area and was caught in a backyard.

An early morning New Year's Day fight left one man with stab wounds and landed three men behind bars.

In a unanimous decision by the members of Moss Landing Chamber of Commerce, the following were elected to office: President Monica Williams of the North Monterey County School District; Vice President Carole Kettman of the Elkhorn Yacht Club; Secretary-Treasurer Ken Chalk of the KOA Moss Landing RV Park; and board-member-at-large Melanie Gideon of ...

It's been relatively quiet at San Francisco's Pier 39 over the past few weeks. The hundreds of sea lions that normally populate the docks at one of the City's most popular tourist attractions have been scarce, leaving many to wonder where they went.

Inside the dank and spacious Holman Antique Plaza on Pacific Grove's Lighthouse Avenue, Nader Agha works his magic: schmoozing with customers, steering employees, and selling five figures' worth of Chinese relics in the space of an hour.

With their binoculars focused on a cluster of oak trees, birdwatchers were greeted by a fluttering black-throated gray warbler in Oceanview Park Saturday during the National Audubon Society's 110th annual Christmas Bird Count.

Last month while I was sailing in Mexico, often accompanied by dolphins, a Manoa reader e-mailed me a question regarding a Star-Bulletin news report about dolphins fatally attacking a porpoise.

Santa Cruz County will host the National Audubon Society's 110th annual Christmas Bird Count this year.

Dr. Marcia McNutt has trained in underwater explosives with the Navy, studied nuclear physics and run what may be the world's most sophisticated oceanic research institute at Moss Landing's MBARI.

Kathleen Hamilton, founder and CEO of Diamond Organics in Moss Landing, shows off some of the organic wines her company ships all over the world.

The 21st Annual Toys for Tots Run took place on Sunday December 6th in Moss Landing.

Pajaro-Sunny Mesa Community Services District water customers are finding a proposed rate hike hard to swallow.

They called it "The Moss Landing War," and that was only a slight exaggeration. But it had grim consequences for Salinas and Monterey County law enforcement officers, changed forever residents' perception of Prohibition as a silly cat-and-mouse game between revenuers and rum runners, and came to an unsatisfactory resolution in the courts.

The kelp forest tripled in size from the peak of glaciation 20,000 years ago to about 7,500 years ago, then shrank by up to 70 percent to present day levels, according to the study by Rick Grosberg, professor in the Department of Evolution and Ecology and the Center for Population Biology at UC Davis, with Michael Graham of the Moss Landing Marine ...

Moss Landing Harbormaster, San Juan Bautista City Clerk and former Marina City Councilwoman Linda McIntyre was released from a San Jose hospital last week after losing a leg in a motorcycle accident Sept.

Thanksgiving Morning Yoga Benefit: Kick off your Turkey Day with morning yoga. Classes will be held from 9-10:30 a.m. on Nov.

NOAA has awarded grants totaling nearly $900,000 to support community-based environmental education programs in Monterey Bay.