Hearst demands payments from San Simeon CSD
By KAREN VELIE The San Simeon Community Services District Board of Directors voted unanimously last week to approve an agreement with the owners of the Hearst Ranch, which allows the...
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Man’s body found outside Paso Robles steakhouse and saloon
By KAREN VELIE A man’s body was discovered in a truck parked outside Cool Hand Luke’s in Paso Robles Wednesday morning. Shortly after 8 a.m., a 911 caller reported a man who appeared in...
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Divers find Arroyo Grande man’s body in Lopez Lake
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Search teams located the body of an Arroyo Grande man at Lopez Lake on Tuesday, a couple days after a report of a person possibly drowning in the South County reservoir. On Sunday,...
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Atascadero State Hospital police officer charged with embezzlement
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested an Atascadero State Hospital police officer Monday evening on numerous charges, including embezzlement and narcotics and...
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State funds Paso Robles hotel conversion to housing for the homeless
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The state of California has awarded a grant of more than $15 million to the Housing Authority of San Luis Obispo (HASLO) in order to purchase Motel 6 in Paso Robles and convert it...
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What the San Luis Obispo mayoral race says about us
OPINION by BLAKE BELTRAM Imagine you’re in a ship, and it’s beginning to sink. Never mind. You don’t have to imagine anything. Just look around. Tune into the news, scroll through Facebook, or...
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SLO County coronavirus cases level, few hospitalizations
The average number of new coronavirus cases in San Luis Obispo County and California have remained primarily flat since mid-September, while the number of hospitalizations and deaths continue to...
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SLO Mayor Harmon’s rhetoric is dangerous and divisive
OPINION by DISTRICT ATTORNEY DAN DOW It has come to my attention that a local incumbent mayoral candidate pulled a political campaign stunt over the weekend by using my name and office to make...
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SLO City responds to diversity task force chair’s criminal charge
By CCN STAFF In response to the criminal charge filed against Amman Asfaw, the chair of San Luis Obispo’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force and a vocal supporter of Mayor Heidi...
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Another Subway restaurant in SLO robbed at gunpoint
Ten days after an armed robbery of a Subway sandwich shop in San Luis Obispo, police are again searching for a gunman who robbed a Subway in SLO. [Tribune] At about 7 p.m. Sunday, a white man...
Read More Divers searching for man suspected of drowning in Lopez Lake
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Dive Team is searching for a suspected drowning victim after a man was reported to have been struggling to stay above water in Lopez Lake Sunday afternoon....
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SLO Mayor Harmon accuses district attorney of voter suppression
By KAREN VELIE In a scathing letter to District Attorney Dan Dow, San Luis Obispo Mayor Heidi Harmon accuses the county’s top prosecutor of voter suppression based on her belief Dow filed...
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A sales tax increase will generate enormous benefits to all SLO residents
OPINION by JEFF BUCKINGHAM Anybody who knows me might expect me to agree with Keith Gurnee’s opposition to San Luis Obispo City’s Measure G-20. Indeed, as a registered Libertarian, I generally lean...
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Atascadero man arrested for shattering glass on a child
By KAREN VELIE 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 21. Prosecutors have charged eight...
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Paso Robles police searching for two men tied to deadly shooting
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Paso Robles police have identified two persons of interest in the fatal shooting of a man at the JnJ Liquor & Deli on Spring Street on Thursday. Police have identified the...
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