The year 2019, Cal Fire’s chief Scott Jalbert says, so far it’s been a pretty good year for fire in the north county, but the fire season is far from over. Today on Sound Off, we’ll talk with Paso Robles fire chief Jonathon Stornetta about the Salinas riverbed clean up and other issues.
A wrong way driver arrested near Atascadero Saturday morning. The CHP arrested the man driving the wrong way on highway 101. The driver reportedly entered the freeway from state route 58 near Santa Margarita he was driving north in the southbound lanes on 101. CHP officers were positioned to stop southbound freeway traffic to avoid…
Almond Acres Charter School may be moving to Paso Robles. Bob Bourgault making the announcement to Paso Robles city council last Thursday night. The property at 1145 Niblick road is the former site of The Redeemer Church, near the intersection of Niblick and Creston roads. It’s on a 3.1 acre lot. Fundraising is expected to…
Late last week, narcotics detectives investigated an illegal marijuana grow in Cambria near two schools. The pot farm was on private property on a hilltop above Coast Union high school and Cambria middle school. It was within 1,000 feet of each school. Detectives removed 1,820 plants from the property. The owner of the land lives…
An inmate died Friday at the county jail. 56-year-old Ernest Leonard Ortiz apparently died from a drug overdose. Another inmate who had been seen with Ortiz also collapsed from an apparent drug overdose. He received an injection of Narcan and was revived. The county sheriff’s department says it’s become an issue across the state. Inmates…
A soldier in the US Army was fatally shot early Sunday in Lompoc. It’s the sixth homicide of the year in Lompoc. Police identify the shooting victim as 22-year-old Marlon Brumfeld of Lompoc. He was on leave from his duty station in Germany when he was killed walking down the street. Lompoc police responded to…
Agents with the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and explosives and other agencies served search warrants yesterday at the offices of the company that owned the Conception dive boat which caught fire last week, killing 34 scuba divers. The agents searched Truth Aquatics offices in Santa Barbara and the company’s two remaining boats. A…
Forecasters say this week will be cooler and windy. The impact of the monsoon that created last week’s warm and humid weather has moved to the east. We’ll see onshore winds with cooler temperatures in the mid 80’s climbing to near 100 this Saturday.
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