The Latest Breaking News from Highway 1

A 90-mile section of California’s Highway 1 along the famous Big Sur coast has finally reopened after three years of closures following a series of landslides and a roadway collapse that hampered tourism on the scenic route

Scenic coastal throughfare from Los Angeles to San Francisco had been cut in tourism-reliant Big Sur area

A horror crash has killed 15 people on the Trans-Canada Highway between the intersection of Highway 1 and Highway 5 near Carberry in Manitoba - we'll be bringing you all the latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story

LOS ANGELES — With storm-damaged Highway 1 under reconstruction in three different places, California Transportation Dept. officials say northbound drivers on that route won’t be able to reach Big Sur directly for at least two months.

PAJARO, Calif. — Dora Alvarez stood on the balcony of her two-story apartment building Tuesday, holding a garden hose next to a rain gutter and steering the water toward recycling bins below for her family to use after boiling it.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Patricia Equihua couldn’t help but think of the strawberry fields Sunday. A 19-year resident of Pajaro, Equihua, a strawberry picker, was among the thousands wondering what to do after a levee along the Pajaro River breached and caused massive flooding to the unincorporated Monterey County town.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — A man stole a pickup truck from a Cambria Community Services District utility yard on Sunday and drove up Highway 1 to Hearst Castle before barricading himself in one of the San Simeon estate’s historic guest houses, officials said.

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Over a month after the flurry of winter storms buffeted the Big Sur coastline, some road closures are being lifted on Highway 1 this weekend.

LOS ANGELES — Neha Patel was still conscious when paramedics rescued her from a white Tesla that had gone off Highway 1 over the cliff at Devil’s Slide and tumbled hundreds of feet down to the beach.