By KAREN VELIE Paso Robles city staff loosened the reins on applicants applying for the contract to operate concessions at the Paso Robles Municipal Airport, but only after outside attorneys found their actions violated the California Constitution. Initially, Paso Robles... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Eight pro-Palestinian protestors were arrested at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo on Monday after they attempted to break into a building and started a riot. One suspect is charged with snatching an officer’s firearm. Aware of... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Following a one-day strike and months of negotiations, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s faculty union and California State University management reached a tentative agreement on Monday. While faculty members went back to work on Tuesday, it appears... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors will meet at 9 a.m. on Jan. 23 at the county building. The county wants money for helping the state meet its offshore wind energy goals. Under Item 31... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Even though most of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s faculty is planing to stage a five-day strike, administrators have asked students to “rat out professors” who participate in the strike. Members of the California faculty Association plan... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The family of Kristin Smart filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo for wrongful death, negligence and negligent infliction of emotional distress, according to the suit. Paul Flores murdered Smart during an... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE An employee of San Luis Obispo County’s waste agency resigned after she reported “gross misappropriation of public funds,” which agency staff then attempted to “sweep under the rug,” according to Ivonne Diaz’s Jan. 15 letter of resignation.... (Continue reading)
By CalCoastNews staff The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors will meet at 6 p.m. on Jan. 16 at the county building. The supervisors are scheduled to hold a study session to review a proposed county ordinance to create... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE While state law appears to require that the Paso Robles City Council change paid parking rates by ordinance only, the council has repeatedly set parking rates through other avenues. During a discussion on parking rates in downtown... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A group of Paso Robles High School students plan to boycott the city’s 17th annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration because they disapprove of the chosen speaker, a black woman. In December, the students in a drama... (Continue reading)