Man stabbed in SLO park
San Luis Obispo police are searching for a man who allegedly stabbed another man Sunday evening at De Vaul Park on Madonna Road. Shortly before 11 p.m., police discovered a man suffering from a stab...
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Author: Karen Velie
Oil spill near Santa Maria
Firefighters in Santa Barbara County are at the scene of a nearly 1,260 gallon oil spill on Palmer Street south of Orcutt. Shortly before 5 a.m., emergency crews responded to a suspected pipeline break that sent oil spilling...
Read MoreLet’s fact check the fracktivists
OPINION By ANDY CALDWELL Willie Brown, one of the most powerful politicians in California history, remarked that “A lie unanswered in politics, becomes truth within 24 hours.” My challenge? Which lie to begin with as I rebut the...
Read MoreTexting information permitted in Cliff’s Resort trial
Lawyers for the family of a woman who was struck by a vehicle and killed while crossing Shell Beach Road unsuccessfully attempted to bar defendants from showing the victims cell phone information to the jury at the trial that...
Read MoreCalifornia Men’s Colony issues 66 layoff notices
The health care services department at the California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo sent out 66 layoff notices giving a six months warning of layoffs to take effect Dec. 1. Every psychiatric technician at the facility received...
Read MoreParkinson’s Navy
By KAREN VELIE and DANIEL BLACKBURN Sheriff Ian Parkinson told San Luis Obispo County Supervisors in April that he needed an extra half million dollars to buy and operate a 27-foot Defender Class response boat to tow drug...
Read MoreCalifornia crippling drought deepens
California drought deepens with areas of exceptional drought going from 36 percent of the state last week to 58 percent of the state this week. The same week that California began handing at fines for wasting water, the state...
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Police cruiser crashes during high-speed chase
Atascadero police arrested a Creston man who led officers on a high-speed chase Monday that ended with a wrecked police cruiser. On Monday at about 2:50 a.m., two Atascadero police officers...
Read MoreRobert’s Restaurant owner sentenced to one year for theft
The owner of Robert’s Restaurant and Wine Bar in Paso Robles was sentenced Tuesday to one year in jail for stealing from a 99-year-old woman. Robert Clouston, 50, pleaded no contest to two felony counts of theft from an elderly...
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Cuesta students travel world studying global climate change
Led by Cuesta College physics instructor Dr. James Eickemeyer, two groups of Cuesta College students recently traveled to multiple countries around the world to study physics and climate change. The...
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Attack outside Mid-State Fair deemed a hate crime
A 25-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly assaulted an African-American man while yelling racist remarks outside the California Mid-State Fair last week. [Tribune] On July 20 shortly after...
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Victim of suspicious death in SLO identified
San Luis Obispo police identified the man found dead at the Silver City Mobile Home Park on South Higuera Street of suspicious circumstances as Nickolas Rudolph Camara, 66. Early Friday morning, the...
Read MoreSLO County policy changes under fire
By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo County planners are attempting to strengthen a highly contested section of the county general plan that allows officials to restrict private land and water use in times of drought and other...
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Car discovered in Laguna Lake
The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s dive team is checking out a car found in Laguna Lake on Monday. San Luis Obispo police and firefighters are also at the lake. Though very few detail are...
Read MorePG&E’s cozy relationship with public officials
After reading thousands of emails received as part of a California Public Records Act lawsuit settlement, San Bruno officials announced that state utility regulators were advising PG&E on ways to fend off a legal challenge...
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