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The city of Paso Robles may buy the old boys school on Airport road. Mayor Steve Martin tells KPRL about efforts to buy the vacant old correctional facility which housed young criminals. For the past two years, Paso Robles city manager Tom Frutchey has been meeting with state officials in Sacramento, to try to find…
Sunday night, Demi Lovato performed at the California mid-state fair. While she was singing ‘Sober’, a song about her battles with drugs and alcohol, she forgot the lyrics. Yesterday, an emergency call to the Hollywood Hills home of Demi Lovato. Lovato was celebrating a friend’s birthday in west Hollywood Monday night. Yesterday afternoon, she was…
The hot weather partly to blame for a power outage yesterday at the California mid state fair. The power went out for just over an hour, beginning around 4:30 yesterday afternoon. The fair has back up generators, but the power came back on around 5:45 and stayed on through the night. More hot weather today…
Mostly sunny today and warmer, highs near 107 Clear overnight, lows near 60 Mostly sunny tomorrow, highs near 109
Another long-time local retail store closes its doors in San Luis. Betty’s Fabrics closes after 45 years. Betty Pilkinton opened the store during the flood of January 18, 1973. At the time, Cal Poly students were paddling canoes through the streets around Higuera and Marsh due to the flooded conditions. She also operated fabric stores…
A fatal stabbing Sunday night on BART at an Oakland subway station. 27-year-old John Lee Cowell is accused of fatally stabbing an 18-year-old woman in the neck. He also stabbed her sister as they exited a train at the Oakland BART station. The attack was described as unprovoked. Cowell had been riding in the same…
A teenage animal activist from San Luis Obispo releases goats and lambs from their pens at the California mid-state fair. 16-year-old Zoe Rosenberg was arrested and released Sunday. Over the past two years, Rosenberg has been arrested several times for acting out in the name of animal rights. She previously protested at the Charles Paddock…
Paso Robles mayor Steve Martin says you’ll see the proposed one half percent sales tax on the ballot in November to fund city roads. City manager Tom Frutchey says the state has taken away gas tax revenue from cities to spend on state programs. Paso Robles mayor Steve Martin says he and Tom Frutchey will…
State water may get a major shot in the arm today. The governor is expected to commit nearly one billion dollars to build two huge dam projects in the bay area, and another $1.5 billion for six more big water projects from the Sacramento valley to Bakersfield. The California Water Commission will likely vote to…
Forecasters say we can expect hot weather the next few days in the north county. 107 today in Paso Robles, slightly cooler in Atascadero. 109 tomorrow….in Paso Robles Then a gradual cooling trend. Temperatures dropping down to 106 on Thursday. 103 Friday in Paso Robles. The hot weather may approach the records for the date.…
