Some rescued critters are now temporarily making a home in the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s sea otter exhibit.

The new morning meditation will happen each weekday morning, via Facebook, during the Cannery Row landmark’s closure.

Enjoy a Monterey Bay Aquarium webcam that’s full of fanciful floaters as the Marchtime Worm Moon casts a lunar light.

SENDING A VALENTINE… to your favorite whale? Not going to happen because A) a Valentine’s Day card would immediately get soggy, and probably unreadable, in the ocean water and B) gray whales near the California coast are busy migrating during the winter. And should we add C)? That you couldn’t possibly pick a favorite whale, because you love them...

California fishermen are reporting one of the best salmon fishing seasons in years, thanks to heavy rain and snow that ended the state’s historic drought. This year’s adult salmon are the first class to benefit from record rainfall that filled California rivers and streams in early 2017.

The nation’s major suppliers of lead paint have agreed to pay California’s largest cities and counties $305 million to settle a nearly 20-year-old lawsuit, attorneys said Wednesday.

The City of San Francisco is on its way to ramping up its plastic bag ban. It would change the way you use plastic bags at big supermarkets, corner grocers and even farmer’s markets. And it sailed through its first reading at the Board of Supervisors. Sam Brock reports.

This beautiful beachfront mansion might look familiar if you’re a fan of “Big Little Lies.” That’s because it’s home to Reese Witherspoon’s character Madeline Martha Mackenzie on the HBO series — and you can stay overnight. While the show is set in Monterey, California, the house is actually located in Malibu, and it’s available for rent for $3,000-$5,000 a night....

Scientists are using cutting-edge technology to better predict great white shark migration. The research will help beachgoers and surfers be aware of when sharks will be close to our coastline.

U.S. health officials have traced a food poisoning outbreak from romaine lettuce to at least one farm in California, which voluntarily recalled red and green leaf lettuce as well as cauliflower because they may be contaminated with E. coli. Adam Bros. Farms in Santa Barbara County said Thursday it was issuing the new recall, for the listed products harvested between...

Health officials on Thursday issued an update to their previous warnings about romaine lettuce, urging consumers to find out where their lettuce originated. In a statement Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises consumers to “not eat and retailers and restaurants not serve or sell any romaine lettuce harvested from certain counties in the Central Coastal growing regions...

A Ventura County man who says he was molested by a priest four decades ago sued 10 of California’s 11 Roman Catholic dioceses Tuesday, alleging they joined in a coverup of priests’ abuse of children.

Opponents of an initiative to split California into three states asked the state Supreme Court to pull the measure from the ballot, arguing it’s too drastic a change to state government to go through the normal initiative process.

As word spread that the Trump administration was separating migrant families, urgent calls went out across the internet: Interpreters were needed at the U.S.-Mexico border to help immigrants understand their legal cases. But this call was not for Spanish speakers. These interpreters needed to speak the lesser-known indigenous languages of Guatemala and Mexico, including Mayan languages and Zapotec.

President Donald Trump is doubling down on his call to strip migrants of their right to see a judge. During a rally in Columbia, South Carolina, the president said migrants should not receive due process and should be immediately deported for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

The controversial proposal that will divide California into three parts will be voted on in November. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for NBC4 News at 4 p.m. on June 13, 2018.

A long-odds effort to split California into three states has qualified for the November ballot, state officials said Tuesday.

Monterey just got a little more crowded, the ladies of “Big Little Lies” are back in town.