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A mountain lion wandered through an Atascadero parking lot over the weekend. Surveillance video captured the mountain lion walking near a boat in the parking lot of Jet Boat Performance Parts of Sycamore road. Anyone who sees a mountain lion in the Atascadero is asked to report it on the department’s website. If you see…
Morro Bay police are still looking for a man seen trespassing on Morro Rock Saturday evening. The police used a drone to get a visual image of the trespasser, but they were unable to identify him or make contact. Officers closed down the parking lot and monitored the area through the night. They believe the…
San Luis Obispo county reports another 64 new cases of the coronavirus over the weekend. 28 were in Paso Robles. 7 in San Miguel. 2 in Templeton One in Creston. That number pushes San Luis Obispo county over the 4,000 case mark. That’s out of a population of 285 thousand people. So, 1.4% of the…
CHP officers arrested an Atascadero man Friday who allegedly smashed a car window onto a 4-year-old boy during a protest in San Luis Obispo on July 21st. Prosecutors have charged eight protesters for a variety of alleged criminal acts during that particular black lives matter protest. Officers booked 21-year-old Robert “Tony” Lastra into the county…
The city of San Luis Obispo is launching an effort to clear homeless camps along the creek and the Bob Jones bike trail which runs parallel to the creek from lower Higuera to Avila Beach. Recently, a dead body was discovered at a homeless encampment just off the bike trail near the trail head. The…
Paso Robles city council meets tonight. It’s a virtual meeting. Tonight the council will discuss regulations on cannabis business tax rates. They will also discuss the conversion of the Motel 6 motel into a homeless shelter and permanent housing. You can hear the meeting live here on KPRL beginning at 6:30.
The housing authority is purchasing a 122-unit motel in Paso Robles that will be converted into an emergency shelter and permanent housing for the homeless. The property is believed to be the Motel 6 just north of 24th street, off Riverside in Paso Robles. Back in mid-September, Wendy Lewis of echo suggested something may be…
The Atascadero police and fire associations releasing a joint statement regarding the mayoral and city council race. They conclude, and I quote, that mayoral candidate Josh Donovan and council member candidate Nic Mattson have failed to earn our confidence to act in the best interest of public safety if elected. The joint statement released yesterday…
Sunny skies today, highs this afternoon in the low 90’s. NW winds 5-10 miles per hour. Overnight, clear to partly cloudy skies, lows near 50. Tomorrow, mostly sunny skies, highs in the low 90’s. NW winds 5-10 miles per hour. The long range forecast calls for sunny skies through the week. But a cooling trend…
A man in Santa Margarita celebrated his 107th birthday yesterday. Henry Barba had a drive-thru birthday celebration with friends and family. Barba was born in 1913. He survived the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, which was far deadlier than Covid-19. He also endured the Great Depression. Barba served in the US Army from 1939 to 1942.…
