August 21 — A STATE board on Wednesday approved rules that will require hundreds of Carmel homeowners, along with millions of people throughout the state, to make significant changes to their properties to help protect them from wildfire. The regulations greatly restrict what plants, materials and structures can be within a 5-foot zone around homes ... Read More

August 21 — A 47-YEAR-OLD Big Sur resident and a 19-year-old man from Livermore died in separate accidents over the weekend, according to local authorities. Brian Bond, known to friends as Brewski, was struck by a car while walking across Highway 1 near Palo Colorado Road Saturday night, and Jerrod Chapman-Marshall was a passenger in a car ... Read More

August 20 — THE PROPOSED increase in hotel taxes that Carmel voters will be asked to decide Nov. 3 has a name — Measure M — and on Friday, the city council unanimously voted to approve a rebuttal ballot argument in its favor. The verbiage comes in response to a statement filed Aug. 7 by people opposed to the tax increase ... Read More

August 20 — WITH JUST over a week left in the legislative session and only a few months before his governorship ends, Gavin Newsom has picked an unpopular path: a power company bailout. The governor has yet to make his proposed legislation public, but it’s clear that he’s urging lawmakers to pass a bill limiting how much utility companies pay ... Read More