By KAREN VELIE Amid a financial crisis, the San Simeon Community Services District general manager and one of four remaining board members quit effective immediately during the past two days. Former Interim General Manager Geoff English submitted a letter of... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The California Mid-State Fair is in full swing, though the number of Hispanics attending a concert in Spanish was dismal after another fake ICE scare in Paso Robles stoked fear and panic within the city’s immigrant communities.... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Attorney John Belsher’s home in San Luis Obispo sold for $600,000 at a sheriff’s auction on Wednesday to help pay a $3.6 million civil fraud judgement. The five-bedroom home on El Cerrito Street is valued at approximately... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Correction: The owners of the Templeton Feed and Grain are not planning on rebuilding the feed storage silos and have contracted with another company to make their feed recipes. San Luis Obispo County sheriff deputies have identified... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Sunday accused Congressman Salud Carbajal of doxing an ICE employee during a raid at a cannabis farm in Carpinteria. Rioters subsequently attacked the ICE employee sending him to the emergency room,... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE More than a year after a class action lawsuit accused Glass House of mistreating its workers, raids at two of its Central Coast cannabis farms led to the arrest of 361 illegal immigrants including convicted rapists, burglars... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE With search warrants in hand, federal agents raided two Central Coast cannabis farms on Thursday – one in Carpinteria and the other in Camarillo – resulting in a protester pointing a gun at agents, a farm worker’s... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Following the arrest of a Catholic priest who is accused of sexually abusing three children in San Luis Obispo County, a fourth victim lodged claims of abuse that occurred from 2005 through 2010. Father Theodore Gabrielli, 61,... (Continue reading)
BY KAREN VELIE The California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to hear the California Coastal Commission’s appeal regarding its attempt to ban off-road vehicle use at the Oceano Dunes. The is a victory for Friends of the Oceano Dunes who... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Update: Within days of Shiloh Marx filing his claim against the San Luis Obispo County, the county sent him a response that included the information requested. “Marx’s original March 11 correspondence was not treated as a request... (Continue reading)