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Cambria Service District wins a $1.75 million dollar settlement in a lawsuit over water treatment plant. The legal battle ensued over the construction of the water treatment plan. This is the settlement. So far, 15 people have died as record cold hits Texas and parts of the south and Midwest. The big issue in Texas,…
Highway One remains closed along the Big Sur coast line. Jim Shivers is with Caltrans. Shivers says the nature of Big Sur creates issues for Caltrans and keeping Highway One open. Shivers says the recent slide in the Rat Creek area was caused in large part by the Dolan fire. It may be months before…
Last night, the Paso Robles city council again discussed the proposed sewer rate increase. Mayor Steve Martin telling the council, people have told him Paso Robles has the highest rates in the county. Waste water treatment manager Matt Thompson said that, that is not the case. The sewer rates in Paso Robles are toward the…
Spring usually means a group of firefighters from Templeton travel to Seattle for a Stair Climb event. Fire captain Brandan Wall tells us this year the stair climb will take place at Templeton high school. They’ll be climbing the stairs at the football stadium, so you may see them as your driving up and down…
Detectives were notified that a vehicle associated with a known drug dealer was parked at a hotel in the 6800 block of El Camino Real. The suspect exited that hotel where he had been staying, drove off and was subsequently stopped by Atascadero police officers for a driving infraction. He’s identified as 45-year-old Christopher Rafael…
The Atascadero police department responded to reports of skeletal remains found at a house under construction on Acacia road. When APD arrived on the scene they had found that the contractor had dug up what looked like human remains. Officers immediately called in an anthropologist who said they were likely Native American human remains. Since…
It took weeks of discussion, but the Paso Robles school board finally completed their response to the grand jury report which was entitled, Paso Robles School District, A Cautionary Tale. Their report described how Chris Williams and his administrators fleeced the school district. The discussion about who is to blame became angry at time. Tuesday…
High school athletic competition finally returns to the north county. Friday afternoon, the Atascadero Greyhounds hosted the Templeton Eagles in a dual cross country meet. Greyhound athletic director Sam DeRose tells KPRL it’s been almost a year since high school athletes competed in any sport. In the girls race Friday, Anna Archibald and Faith Rocha…
A major accident on 46 and 101 at the underpass yesterday morning. The crash was reported to Paso Robles police around 8:30 yesterday morning. Police found a diesel fuel tank of a semi truck spilling fuel across the roadway. Drivers were advised to avoid the area while cal trans hazardous waste team put an absorbent…
Mostly sunny today, highs this afternoon near 62. NNW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Partly cloudy tonight, lows near 43. NNW 10-15 miles per hour. Partly cloudy tomorrow, highs around 62. The extended forecast calls for mostly sunny on Sunday, Valentines Day.