By KAREN VELIE John Belsher, a San Luis Obispo-based attorney, resigned from the State Bar of California on Tuesday amid disciplinary proceedings. He asked to be immediately listed as inactive. Even so, his resignation isn’t effective until the State Bar... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE The division between anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement groups in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties and supporters of law enforcement have widened following recent fatal ICE shooting in Minnesota. In response to videos of the shooting,... (Continue reading)
Clarification: While attorney Eva Ulz is named in the Flipcause bankruptcy, she wrote that, “Flipcause does not owe me any money and I have never had any financial relationship with Flipcause.” By KAREN VELIE A California-based fundraising platform filed for... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Sable Offshore can now resume offshore oil production at all three of its platforms off the Santa Barbara County coastline, following a federal appeals court ruling on Wednesday. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increased operations in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties over the past three days. Misinformation on social media about the operation is creating fear in local immigrant communities. Early Tuesday... (Continue reading)
By CalCoastNews staff To say 2025 was an eventful year in San Luis Obispo County would be an understatement. The top stories of 2025 include the arrest of a man planning to kill the district attorney and bomb a school,... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Investigators believe the mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard shot her daughter in the head multiple times before leaving the child’s body in a remote area in Utah. Deputies arrested 40-year-old Ashlee Buzzard for first degree murder... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE Based on national security concerns, the Trump administration suspended leases of all off-shore wind farms currently under construction in the United States, the Department of the Interior announced Monday. The pause provides the Department of War time... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A group of approximately 20 protestors gathered outside the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday morning to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions at the jail. At 10 a.m., protesters gathered off Highway 1... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE A group of anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protestors berated federal agents and obstructed the arrest of an inmate at the San Luis Obispo County Jail on Sunday morning. ICE agents monitor jail logs for arrests and releases... (Continue reading)