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The CHP says a Bakersfield man who caused a fatal crash on highway 166 on April 6th was driving under the influence of drugs. Three Cal Poly students were driving eastbound on 166 to look at wildflowers. They were struck by a car driven by 29-year-old Brian Scott Adams of Bakersfield. Adams’ car crossed the…
San Luis Obispo county has the highest gas prices in the nation. That’s what GasBuddy.com determined Friday. The average price in our county, $3.91 cents a gallon. That’s higher than San Francisco, Los Angeles or San Diego. The most expensive gas in the county is the Shell station in Cambria. $4.59 cents a gallon on…
Tomorrow night’s Paso Robles city council meeting is canceled. There will be no meeting tomorrow night. You may remember two weeks ago, the meeting went until 11:20 at night. At the “eleventh hour” the council completely reversed itself on the short term vacation rental (STR) issue. In the previous meeting they voted unanimously to ban…
A vegetation fire burned about 11 acres of the Salinas riverbed Saturday. The fire was reported around five Saturday afternoon in the area near North River road. The wind-driven fire consumed dense vegetation in the riverbed. Fire fighters had difficulty accessing the fire. North River road was closed between Union road and Riveroaks drive for…
This is fourth of July week. The fourth falls on Thursday. The upcoming weekend is a four day holiday for many. The annual Templeton fourth of July parade will be at ten Thursday morning in downtown Templeton. The pancake breakfast put on the Templeton firefighters begins at 7:00 at the fire station. No roadwork scheduled…
Mostly sunny today with highs in the upper 80’s. Winds from the NW 15-25 miles per hour. Tonight, clear with lows around 50. NW winds 10-20 miles per hour. Tomorrow, mostly sunny with highs near 90. WSW winds 5-10 miles per hour. Increasing to 10-20 miles per hour.
Fifty years ago, man landed on the moon. Those Apollo astronauts returned from the moon with hundreds of pounds of moon rocks. For the first time in decades, NASA is about to open some of those pristine samples and let geologists take a crack at them with 21st century technology. Some say it’s a fitting…
Saturday in the park returns to Atascadero lake park tomorrow night. Terrie Banish tells KPRL who’s playing tomorrow night at 6:30 at the bandstand by the lake. Crisptones will play classic rock beginning at six-thirty tomorrow evening at Atascadero lake park. The summer concert series is presented by Daylight Home, Lighting and Patio with stores…
Caltrans is revising and rearranging its work schedule on highway one, where they are repaving between Cambria and Harmony. That’s after a massive traffic tie-up Wednesday that held miles of cars in gridlock for an hour or more. No work will occur between 6:00 am Tuesday and 7:00 pm, Friday, July 7th. After that, all…
State officials identify the man shot and killed by state park rangers last Saturday at Pfeiffer Big Sur state park. He’s 26-year-old Kevin Anthony Alaniz of Milpitas. He’s suspected in a fatal shooting that occurred on interstate 680 in Milpitas two weeks ago. At a news conference in Salinas yesterday, officials say that before Alaniz…
