For at least the seventh time this year, a person died in a car crash near the Highway 41 and Highway 46 “Y.” On Monday night, a man driving an Acura Integra slammed head-on into a semi-truck while trying to... (Continue reading)
A 54-year-old Templeton woman lost control of her pickup truck on Highway 101, went airborne and slammed into an overpass in Atascadero. The woman suffered broken legs in the wreck. At about 3:20 p.m. Monday, Melissa Diane Gootkin was driving... (Continue reading)
OPINION by STEW JENKINS On July 26, the New Times reported that the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney had determined that the City Council “unlawfully altered the initiative,” Measure B-17, in violation of Elections Code sections 9210 and 9214.... (Continue reading)
The administrator of the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District announced he will resign on Aug. 3. [Cal Coast Times] Gerhardt Hubner has come under fire in recent months as the district has launched several personnel investigations, which have... (Continue reading)
OPINION by JULIE TACKER The South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District has finally parted ways with their new administrator. In just over a year Gerhardt Hubner has turned what was a district emerging from a heavy cloud of litigation... (Continue reading)
A lawsuit filed this month in San Luis Obispo Superior Court alleges Atascadero police unlawfully detained, questioned and searched a black man after spotting him with a white woman who happens to be his wife. The lawsuit alleges the Atascadero... (Continue reading)
While trying to stab a man during an altercation at Mitchell Park Friday night, a 37-year-old transient instead stabbed a woman who intervened, according to the San Luis Obispo Police Department. The woman survived the attacked, and officers tracked down... (Continue reading)
A Visalia man who was driving under the influence of alcohol crashed his SUV on Highway 101 Friday morning, causing the vehicle to rollover and a passenger to end up in the hospital, according to the CHP. Around 7:20 a.m.,... (Continue reading)
San Luis Obispo County hospitals have treated five people for rattlesnake bites this year, and treatment is not cheap. It cost about $30,000 a patient to treat rattlesnake bites. Rattlesnake season — when the snakes are not hibernating in their... (Continue reading)
A California deputy attorney general who is the son of a prominent figure from the Watergate scandal was arrested this week and charged in federal court with possession of child pornography. [Union-Tribune] Federal prosecutors say investigators found child porn at... (Continue reading)