Find great local sales and deals on dining, happy hours, lodging, golf and more while supporting San Luis Obispo County businesses and the local economy. Old Juan’s Cantina in Oceano A great way to...
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By KAREN VELIE While California gas prices surged last week, the average price for gas in the United States was unchanged. The average price for gas surged in San Luis Obispo County last week...
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By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo police officers are searching for a driver who fled the scene of a rollover crash in the intersection of Broad and South streets on Saturday night. Shortly before 8...
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By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County and a contracted mental health group agreed to pay $8 million to the family of a teen who died at a county facility, though it would be eight to 10 hours before...
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By KAREN VELIE Starbucks Coffee is closing 250 stores in the United States and Canada, three in San Luis Obispo, the chain announced on Thursday. While the chain did not list the specific stores it...
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OPINION by DORIAN BAKER Paso Robles Joint Unified School District says students deserve an air-conditioned gym. Yet the district says demolishing the existing high school gym and building a new one...
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By KAREN VELIE A judge ruled Thursday that the more than 800 residents involved in a quiet title lawsuit to protect their rights to use water from the Paso Robles Groundwater Basin without charge...
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By KAREN VELIE The California Highway Patrol in Templeton announced plans to conduct a DUI checkpoint at an undisclosed location in San Luis Obispo County on Saturday evening. Officials select the...
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By KAREN VELIE After the chair of the Templeton Area Advisory Group was convicted of eight criminal counts, the bulk of the group’s members resigned leaving the board unable to function. With...
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By KAREN VELIE A San Luis Obispo County jury on Wednesday found a Nipomo man guilty of felony violence against an intimate partner. Bob Otis Sell, 54, is scheduled for sentencing on Oct. 5. On May...
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By KAREN VELIE A vehicle fire on Highway 101 north of San Luis Obispo ignited a fast moving fire on the Cuesta Grade on Wednesday. Shortly before 2 p.m., a caller reported a Tesla burning on...
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OPINION by ANDY CALDWELL I asked the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors a simple question: Why would you rezone 16,000 acres of ag land for solar panels, when California has an excess of the...
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By KAREN VELIE Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 27-year-old man on Monday for allegedly raping a 14-year-old girl at knifepoint near a bike path in Carpinteria in March 2025....
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By KAREN VELIE Shortly after a San Luis Obispo County jury found a woman guilty of election fraud, she released a statement saying she plans to focus on filing lawsuit against those involved in her...
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Editor’s note: CalCoastNews is referring to developer Ryan Petetit, who changed his name to Ryan Wright during the case, as Ryan Petetit-Wright. By KAREN VELIE The California Supreme Court ruled...
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