Want a restaurant-quality meal to enjoy in the comfort and safety of your home in San Luis Obispo County? While taking a break this holiday season, you can support a local restaurant. Here’s a list...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Amid a pandemic-driven global economic crisis, and shortly following the passage of a sales tax hike, the San Luis Obispo City Council voted to give approximately $20,000 raises, as...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo County’s population declined over the last fiscal year, while statewide growth fell to a record low rate, as California is on the verge of a population decline....
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Despite requests from Cal Poly faculty and staff to have students learn remotely until the current outbreak of coronavirus is under control, university administrators are moving approximately 4,500...
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Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham introduced a bill on Thursday to limit Gov. Gavin Newsom’s ’s ability to unilaterally enact or change laws or regulations 60 days after an emergency is declared...
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While the state reported the Southern California region is at 0% intensive care unit (ICU) availability on Thursday, San Luis Obispo County has approximately 40% ICU beds unused. The Southern...
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An infectious disease specialist at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria was the first of many physicians, nurses, and frontline support staff on the Central Coast to receive the...
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Federal prosecutors charged three California women involved in two unemployment benefit fraud schemes that netted over $400,000. Two of the women were involved with inmate fraud while a third was a...
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Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday the state had ordered 5,000 more body bags and placed dozens of refrigerated trucks on standby as the state set a record for daily deaths from the coronavirus. On...
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A week after the outgoing Solvang City Council voted unanimously to sidestep California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order, a new council majority is backtracking on efforts to keep businesses...
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San Luis Obispo County reported Tuesday that six community members died overnight from the coronavirus, bringing the total number of deaths in the county to 52. The surge in cases is linked to...
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By KAREN VELIE An anonymous San Luis Obispo County Planning Department employee filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that a department supervisor was assigned to a project that her husband’s...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Santa Maria man who drove the wrong way while intoxicated, causing a crash in Nipomo that killed an 82-year-old woman, managed to evade a second-degree murder conviction after a...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN A pair of shootings in Santa Maria on Monday left two victims with gunshot wounds and one of the individuals in critical condition. Shortly after noon, a caller reported an adult...
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In a matter of days, health care workers will be the first in San Luis Obispo County to receive coronavirus vaccinations, according to the SLO County Health Department. The county is awaiting a...
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