By KAREN VELIE Three peace officers were justified in the fatal 2020 shooting of a 42-year-old man in Nipomo in order to stop his shooting spree, according to a report released Friday by the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County Sheriff deputies arrested a 47-year-old man on Friday for allegedly making a racist threat against a Nipomo business owner. For months, Ricardo Salazar of Santa Maria would sit in his car in front... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A Caltrans worker found what appeared to be a bomb on Friday morning near Los Alamos leading to the closure of a portion of Highway 101 for approximately three hours. Shortly after 10 a.m., the Caltrans worker... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The Biden administration on Thursday announced plans to auction five offshore areas for wind development, including three in Morro Bay, with the auctions prices proposed to start at $8 million each. Last year, the federal Department of... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Santa Barbara County Sheriff deputies are investigation a possible threat against Reghetti High School in Santa Maria. [KSBY] The threatening Snapchat post, by a user with the account name “shootingRHSnext,” mentions “RHS,” which could stand for Reghetti... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County voters appear to be taking their time in returning their primary election ballots, with slightly under 10% returned as of Thursday. Of the 186,626 ballots sent to registered voters, 18,360 have been returned... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE An Atascadero High School student posted a threatening video of himself racking a shotgun on Wednesday, that led to the evacuation of the school campus on Thursday. The student posted the video on Snapchat, a social media... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Coalinga man was killed in a single car collision early Thursday morning on Highway 101 north of San Luis Obispo. The 31-year-old man was headed southbound when he drove his 2012 Chevrolet into the guardrail on... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN Multiple inmates were involved in a large riot at the Santa Barbara County Main Jail on Sunday. [Independent] Many inmates were forced out into the yard at the jail and were ordered to lie on the ground,... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Police are investigating a threat made against Atascadero High School that was discovered shortly before school was scheduled to start. While police search the campus, they are evacuating students. A community member first reported the alleged threat.... (Continue reading)