By KAREN VELIE A woman jumped to her death from a San Luis Obispo parking garage on Tuesday morning, according to the SLO Police Department. Shortly after 9 a.m., police officers and mental health professionals responded to the parking garage... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Vandenberg Space Force Base contractor pleaded guilty last week to voyeurism after federal investigators caught him secretly recording nude women in an employee bathroom at the Santa Barbara County base. [Daily Beast] Aung K. Zin worked... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE An Arroyo Grande nurse practitioner has agreed to stop claiming she is a medical doctor and to pay a fine. After earning a doctorate degree in nursing, Sarah Erny began identifying herself as “Dr. Sarah Erny,” in... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Firefighters extinguished a blaze before it could cause significant damage to a San Luis Obispo home on Sunday. At about 12:40 p.m., a barbecue smoker was left unattended and sitting too close to combustible materials and vegetation,... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The average price for a gallon of gas in San Luis Obispo County fell five cents during the past week to $5.78, in line with minor declines in gas prices throughout most of the nation, according to... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The captain of the Santa Barbara-based dive boat that burst into flames in 2019, killing 33 passengers and one crew member, is scheduled for trial next month. Jerry Nehl Boylan, 68, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to... (Continue reading)
By Karen Velie The city of San Luis Obispo announced Friday the appointment of Todd Tuggle to head the SLO Fire Department. Tuggel, currently chief of the Santa Maria Fire Department, is slated to start his new post in SLO... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a 51-year-old Santa Barbara man on Thursday for allegedly attempting to kidnap a child outside a school in Carpinteria. On Monday at approximately 4 p.m., a man was spotted attempting to... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Officers from several law enforcement agencies conducted a foot patrol of an area of homeless encampments in Grover Beach Thursday morning, resulting in four arrests. In response to recent reports of criminal activity, Grover Beach police, Pismo... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN An Uber driver struck and killed a male who was walking on Highway 101 in the Goleta area early Friday morning. Shortly before 2 a.m., a caller reported a person hit on northbound Highway 101 between Fairview... (Continue reading)