By KAREN VELIE The water supply for five communities in San Luis Obispo County is contaminated with coliform bacteria, or E. coli, leading to a boil water order for cooking and drinking water. After the contamination was detected in treated... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A teenager was stabbed and killed on Wednesday evening in Santa Barbara. Shortly before 9 p.m., callers reported a male down in the roadway near the intersection of San Simeon Drive and Turnpike Road. Deputies arrived to... (Continue reading)
By Karen Velie A downed power line in Paso Robles left hundreds without power and caused three small fires on Wednesday afternoon. Shortly after 1:30 p.m., a caller reported a vegetation fire near the intersection of Geneseo Road and Moon... (Continue reading)
OPINION by WILL HARRIS We can’t do anything. We don’t have any real power. The commission has no teeth. Such complaints of designed impotency are not uncommon from members of the state’s Off Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. Ostensibly, the... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The California Highway Patrol identified the two drivers killed in a crash on Monday evening as 63-year-old Melchor David Delagarza and 49-year-old Darlene Leticia Scruggs, both of Nipomo, according to the California Highway Patrol. Shortly before 6:30... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE In an attempt to address the affordable housing crisis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo is in the process of developing what is slated to be the nation’ largest modular housing development. In order to increase the student... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Grover Beach police officers arrested three drivers for street racing over the weekend. Officers witnessed two street races, one on the 1500 block of W. Grand Avenue and the other on the 1800 block of W. Grand... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE After discovering a subject was using social media to illegally sell marijuana to minors in Santa Maria, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office mounted an investigation in early March. Detectives later identified 23-year-old Alexis Silviano Vazquez Guzman... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Deputies arrested a domestic violence suspect on Monday afternoon after a standoff at the suspect’s home in Santa Barbara. Shortly after 8:30 a.m., Santa Barbara County deputies responded to a report of domestic violence in Goleta. The... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Two drivers were killed and a third driver was injured in a head-on crash in Nipomo on Monday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol. Shortly before 6:30 p.m., a driver was headed southbound in a white... (Continue reading)