By JOSH FRIEDMAN To combat the large amount bird feces and flies in and around a downtown creek, the city of San Luis Obispo has decided to lure pigeons into going on birth control. [KSBY] Hundreds of pigeons have created... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department officials are warning of an “alarming” increase in deaths from fentanyl overdoses over the past five months. Between May and October, 10 people died in SLO County as a result... (Continue reading)
By CCT STAFF The Arroyo Grande City Council is expected to sign a resolution on Tuesday evening agreeing to transition from an at-large electoral system to by-district voting by the 2022 election, a move that is intended to appease a... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN The suspect accused of shooting and killing a 33-year-old man in Santa Maria earlier this month has been caught in Mexico and extradited to Santa Barbara County, police say. [Cal Coast Times] At about 3:30 p.m. on... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A Los Osos woman who struck and killed a Morro Bay pastor while driving intoxicated was sentenced to state prison for six years and four months on Monday, though she could quickly be appearing before a parole... (Continue reading)
Editor’s note: This is part one in a series about a loophole in the state and county’s hemp regulations and those taking advantage of the lack of oversight. By KAREN VELIE The signs say “hemp.” But at multiple grows throughout... (Continue reading)
By CCT STAFF A group of Santa Maria police officers appear to rough up a suspected DUI driver after ordering him to crawl on the street, while multiple bystanders videotape the incident. Officers stopped the suspected DUI driver on the... (Continue reading)
By CCT STAFF Workers at a cannabis cultivation site on York Mountain Road in Templeton interrupted three burglars early Monday morning. Shortly after 6 a.m., workers discovered the thieves in the act of taking hemp plants. The startled thieves dropped... (Continue reading)
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A car struck and injured a father and his two-year-old daughter as they were crossing a street in Santa Barbara on Sunday afternoon. [KCOY] At about 3 p.m., a Jaguar sedan struck the man and his daughter... (Continue reading)
By CCT STAFF A San Luis Obispo County jury on Monday found a man guilty of the brutal stabbing and murder of his mother at her Grover Beach home. Levente Laszlo Lazar, 27, is facing life in prison without the... (Continue reading)