A fire caused the California State Park Pismo Beach Campground to be evacuated Monday afternoon. Around 3:30 p.m. Monday, vegetation caught on fire and four acres burned near the entrance to the Oceano Dunes. The fire threatened...
Read MoreGrover Beach Mayor Debbie Peterson, who is campaigning to repeal the San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District dust rule, petitioned her fellow council members Monday to join her in opposition to the regulation....
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San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies and State Park rangers discovered an abandoned panga boat Sunday morning near the Piedras Blancas Lighthouse outside of San Simeon. The deputies and rangers...
Read MoreA motorcyclist died Saturday after colliding with a car on Highway 227 near Cold Canyon Landfill. [KSBY] The crash occurred around 1:30 p.m. Saturday. The collision threw the motorcyclist off his bike, which then caught on fire,...
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Santa Barbara County Grand Jury transcripts suggest that a Santa Maria gang brutally murdered and tortured 28-year-old Anthony Ibarra over a drug tax debt. [KEYT] Gang members tortured and killed...
Read MoreInmates at the California Men’s Colony have joined a statewide hunger strike over the treatment of prisoners, just as state officials are trying to convince the U.S. Supreme Court that prison conditions have improved. The...
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By JOSH FRIEDMAN Most observers of California politics expect Governor Jerry Brown to remain in office for yet another term. Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly does not. Though Donnelly is most...
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Pismo Beach police have identified a man who died Tuesday evening after driving off a cliff as 33-year-old Sean Ramirez of Los Osos. Ramirez drove his white truck off a cliff just south of the Best...
Read MoreTwo days after announcing its plan to unveil a public database containing pension information for all retirees in its system, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System chose to delay the creation of the database....
Read MoreThe city of Stockton, which last year became the largest U.S. city to file for bankruptcy, will vote on whether or not to raise taxes to help ease its financial troubles. [News10] The Stockton City Council voted Tuesday night to...
Read MoreA man died Tuesday evening after driving off a cliff in Pismo Beach. [KCOY] The driver crashed his car around 6 p.m. Tuesday near the Best Western Shelter Cove Lodge in Pismo Beach. He was the only person inside the vehicle. Cal...
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A thief stole Arroyo Grand Police Chief Steve Annibali’s badge and gun from his unmarked car Sunday night. [KSBY] Annibali said that the thief smashed the passenger side window of his car around...
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San Luis Obispo Police Department narcotics officer Corey Pierce pleaded guilty to extortion Monday in federal court in Los Angeles. [New Times] Pierce 39, pleaded guilty to one of two counts of...
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A Northern California man is under arrest for sexually assaulting a horse. [KTVU] Fifty-six-year-old Bryon Baker of El Dorado County is accused of stealing a horse, leaving it to die and sexually...
Read MoreA California lawmaker has proposed requiring state prison officials to distribute condoms to inmates in order to limit the spread of HIV and other diseases. [ABC 10] Democratic Assemblyman Rob Bonta’s bill, AB 999, would require...
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