PG&E’s 2020 Wildfire Mitigation Plan Expands, Enhances Community Wildfire Safety Program, Reduces Impacts of Public Safety Power Shutoffs

PG&E’s 2020 Wildfire Mitigation Plan Expands, Enhances Community Wildfire Safety Program, Reduces Impacts of Public Safety Power Shutoffs

San Francisco, CA…As part of its ongoing efforts to further reduce wildfire risks and keep customers and the communities it serves safe, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) today submitted its 2020 Wildfire Mitigation Plan to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). The plan expands and enhances the company’s comprehensive Community Wildfire Safety Program designed to address the growing […]

Kayaker in Distress Rescued By Pebble Beach CSD, Carmel Highlands, and Cypress FPD

Kayaker in Distress Rescued By Pebble Beach CSD,  Carmel Highlands, and Cypress FPD

Pebble Beach, CA…Pebble Beach Community Services District(CSD)/CAL FIRE, Carmel Highlands Fire Protection District(FPD)/CAL FIRE, Cypress Fire Protection District(FPD)/CAL FIRE, Carmel-by-the-Sea Ambulance, Monterey County Sheriff, and California State Parks Life Guards responded to kayakers in distress approximately 200 yards offshore from the 9th hole at the Pebble Beach Golf Links at 1:45 PM. Ground resources established […]

Traffic Update….BMW vs Toyota on Hwy Near Big Sur

Traffic Update….BMW vs Toyota on Hwy Near Big Sur

Big Sur, CA…Traffic Update….BMW vs Toyota on Hwy Near Big Sur. Incident: 00251 Type: Trfc Collision-1141 Enrt Location: SR1 MM 50.0 Loc Desc: CAPTAIN COOPER ELEM SCH Lat/Lon: 36.279081 -121.829097 Detail Information 4:38 PM 8 [32] 27-12 INQ IF THEY NEED 1185 4:36 PM 7 [29] [Notification] [CHP]-PER MTRY COM , FIRE 97 3 VEH […]

World Health Organization News Conference on Coronavirus Outbreak

World Health Organization News Conference on Coronavirus Outbreak

Geneva, Switzerland….(CNBC)..World Health Organization officials hold a news conference to update the public on the new coronavirus outbreak. As of Friday, more than 31,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported in over two dozen countries, resulting in at least 636 deaths almost exclusively in China. The WHO declared the virus a global health emergency last […]

Economy Added 225,000 Non-Farm Jobs in January. Construction, Health Care, Transportation & Warehousing Lead Way.

Economy Added 225,000 Non-Farm Jobs in January.  Construction, Health Care, Transportation & Warehousing Lead Way.

Washington, DC….Economy Added 225,000 Non-Farm Jobs in January. Construction, Health Care, Transportation & Warehousing Lead Way. Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 225,000 in January, and the unemployment rate was little changed at 3.6 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Notable job gains occurred in construction, in health care, and in transportation […]

Nick Taylor Leads by Two at AT&T Pebble Beach

Nick Taylor Leads by Two at AT&T Pebble Beach

  Pebble Beach, CA…(AP)..Nick Taylor opened with an eagle, closed with two birdies and made a gorgeous day feel even better with an 8-under 63 at Monterey Peninsula that gave him the lead Thursday in the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Most of the interest over three courses in the rotation was at Spyglass Hill, which […]

Governor Newsom Issues Proclamation Declaring Black History Month

Governor Newsom Issues Proclamation Declaring Black History Month

Sacramento, CA…Governor Gavin Newsom issued a proclamation declaring February 2020, as Black History Month in the State of California. The text of the proclamation is below: PROCLAMATION The history of democracy in the United States is one of struggle and triumph. Equality and freedom, denied from the beginning to African Americans, were only made truer […]

Actor Kirk Douglas 1916 – 2020 Passes Away at 103

Actor Kirk Douglas 1916 – 2020 Passes Away at 103

Hollywood, CA…”Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor, producer, director and author. A centenarian, he was one of the last surviving stars of the film industry’s Golden Age.[2] After an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, he made his film debut in The Strange […]

Senate Votes to Acquit President Trump Largely Along Party Lines

Senate Votes to Acquit President Trump Largely Along Party Lines

Washington, DC…President Trump was Acquitted along party lines today. The only defection on either side was Senator Romney vote for impeachment on one of the articles. The following is from McConnell on End of Impeachment Trial before the votes: “The Senate Must Do What We Were Created To Do” U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell […]

Charges to be Dismissed Against Newport Beach Surgeon & Girlfriend Accused of Drugging, Sexually Assaulting Women. Previous DA Manufactured Case

Charges to be Dismissed Against Newport Beach Surgeon & Girlfriend Accused of Drugging, Sexually Assaulting Women.  Previous DA Manufactured Case

Santa Ana, CA…Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer announced today that all criminal charges will be dropped against a 39-year-old Newport Beach orthopedic surgeon and reality television star Grant Robicheaux and his 33-year-old girlfriend Cerissa Riley who were accused of drugging and sexually assaulting seven women. On September 11, 2018, former District Attorney Tony Rackauckas […]