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SLO County golf course running a $500,000 deficit

Written on 18 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 20 comments

The recent drought coupled with state prison realignment is causing the Dairy Creek Golf Course at El Chorro Regional Park to turn brown. But, the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors is planning on injecting cash into the course... (Continue reading)

Pipeline company facing criminal charges over Refugio oil spill

Written on 17 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

A California state grand jury has indicted Plains All American Pipeline and one of its employees over last year’s oil spill in Santa Barbara County. The company announced the indictment in a press release Tuesday morning. The indictment contains a... (Continue reading)

San Miguel teen stabbing gang related

Written on 17 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | No comments

Participants in the stabbing of a 15-year-old boy at San Miguel Park Monday afternoon are providing contradictory and conflicting information to San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies. Investigators believe the assault was gang related. Investigators  questioned an 18-year-old suspect at... (Continue reading)

Phillips 66 rail spur likely to get planning commission approval

Written on 17 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

The San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission has indicated it will approve a scaled-down version of Phillips 66’s proposed rail spur. Commissioners are expected to voted 3-2 in favor of the project at a meeting in September. Phillips 66 plans... (Continue reading)

Teen stabbed at San Miguel Park

Written on 17 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 2 comments

An attacker stabbed a 15-year-old boy in the stomach at San Miguel Park Monday afternoon. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies questioned a person of interest, but the attacker reportedly remains on the loose. At about 3 p.m., deputies responded... (Continue reading)

California may spend $10 million on earthquake warning system

Written on 16 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 21 comments

California Gov. Jerry Brown has reversed course and proposed allocating $10 million in state funds toward an earthquake early warning system that federal government scientists and university researchers are developing. United States Geological Survey officials say the state funds would... (Continue reading)

Federal agency may close Guadalupe-Nipomo wildlife refuge

Written on 16 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering closing the remote Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes National Wildlife Refuge for the next 15 years. Though the federal agency’s budget is growing, its fund for managing the national refuge system is shrinking. The Guadalupe-Nipomo... (Continue reading)

Cal Poly students again angered by plan to develop farmland

Written on 16 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 16 comments

For the second time in the span of a year, Cal Poly agriculture students are protesting a university plan to develop farmland. The new proposal targets land where cattle graze, and it has angered dairy science students. Last June, a... (Continue reading)

Manslaughter defendant stomped on unconscious victim

Written on 14 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 12 comments

One of the defendants on trial for killing a San Miguel man in 2014 appears to stomp on the victim as he lies unconscious outside the Elkhorn bar, in a video shown to jurors on Thursday. [Tribune] On Sept. 7,... (Continue reading)

Strawberry production down, farmers take a hit

Written on 14 May, 2016 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 5 comments

By John Lindt, publisher of Sierra 2 the Sea During the past year, acreage dedicated to strawberries in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties is down 25 percent. Acreage dropped from 8,305 in 2015 to 7,100 acres in the... (Continue reading)