Fort Ord

Since the day it opened last year, the Central Coast Veterans Cemetery has been a cemetery that lacked in-ground burials. Right now, it only has space for…

The new veteran’s cemetery on the former Fort Ord just opened Tuesday and has already added additional staff to handle a flood of burial inquiries. With…

Land where soldiers once trained for war is now a final resting place for those who served. The Central Coast Veterans Cemetery on the former Fort Ord…

Any day now the Army hopes to resume prescribed burns on the former Fort Ord. It’s part of the clean-up process, which began when the Army base closed…

Judith Quinones lays out pictures of her late husband Abel on an ottoman in the living room of her assisted living community.“This is my favorite one of…

The military is in Wilma Hall-McKenzie’s blood. “I’ve been an Army brat all my life. My dad was in the Army for 30 years, and my husbands were both in the…

Portland, Oregon is well known as a bike friendly city, but it wasn’t always that way. The woman who helped change the city from being car centric to the…

Fort Ord closed on September 30, 1994. It was one of the largest U.S. military bases ever shutdown. The closure left behind an area of land the size of…

In the twenty years since the Army shut down Fort Ord there’s been progress on repurposing the land – a new University, a National Monument, new housing…

This week the Monterey County Board of Supervisors pulled its support for a planned transit center on Fort Ord. It’s a victory for a group that aims to…