Local news in San Luis Obispo County including San Miguel, Paso Robles, Shandon, Templeton, Atascadero, Santa Margarita, San Luis Obispo, Avila Beach, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria, Pismo Beach, Arroyo Grande, Santa Maria, and other cities along the Central Coast of California.
Chinese companies are willing to buy more US farm products. Envoys from China and the US meet next week in Shanghai. Apple is paying one billion dollars for Intel’s chip maker’s smartphone modem division. The french inventor of an airborne hover board glided more than halfway across the English Channel before he crashed into the…
A California affiliate of the National Rifle Association is asking a US judge to block a new law requiring background checks for anyone buying ammunition. The California Rifle and Pistol Association asked US district judge Roger Benitez to halt the checks and related restrictions on ammunition sales. Voters approved tightening California’s already strict firearms law…
The CHP says a 26-year-old man was killed in a crash on 101 in Paso Robles Wednesday night. The crash occurred around 9:15 in the north bound lanes of 101 just south of the Spring street off ramp. The SUV went off the freeway, down a slope and crashed onto the railroad tracks. The driver…
If you live in Templeton, you will soon be voting on fire protection in your area. Templeton fire chief Bill White explains where the revenue generated will be spent. You may receive the ballot in the mail any day. Tomorrow, volunteers will walk precincts in Templeton to encourage voters to support the ballot measure. It’s…
Day ten today of the California Mid-state Fair. The 27th annual breakfast held yesterday at the downtown city park. Yesterday, Tommy Harris gave free carriage rides at the pancake breakfast. Today he’s back at the fair grounds, performing hands-on horse activities at 2 and 4. The wrangler junior country rodeo is already underway at the…
Sunny today but cooler, highs near 96. SW winds 15-25 miles per hour. Tonight, mostly clear with lows near 60. W winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tomorrow, partly cloudy with highs near 98. Westerly winds 5-10 miles per hour. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny weather through the weekend. High temperatures around 100. A…
If you live in Templeton, you will soon be voting on fire protection in your area. Jessica Main says this is not an election where you to go a polling place, you’ll receive the ballot in the mail. Those ballots going out in a day or two.
Atascadero police looking for a man who stole an urn from the Faces of Freedom in Atascadero. The urn and flowers had been placed at the Veterans Memorial to honor someone who probably died in the global war on terror. The urn was placed below that global war on terror plaque. Cameras caught the man…
A San Miguel man convicted of shooting his girlfriend in the neck gets life in prison. 38-year-old Jim Pinedo found guilty of seven felony counts including attempted murder, assault with a firearm, inflicting corporal injury to an intimate partner and threatening and dissuading a witness. He was sentenced yesterday in San Luis Obispo superior court…
Another meeting for the group developing a draft plan for the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin. San Luis Obispo county supervisors Debbie Arnold is not a member of the Groundwater Sustainability Agency committee, but she attended the meeting yesterday afternoon along with about 50 other interested people. Groundwater sustainability was the subject of another in a…
