By KAREN VELIE Your parking meter in Pismo Beach ran out 10 minutes before you got back to your car, which now has an $80 parking ticket on the windshield. The Pismo Beach City Council voted June 2 to change the ticket for overstaying at an already paid for meter...
By KAREN VELIE The San Luis Obispo Police Department is warning the public about a phone scam aimed at extorting money from local residents. Scammers are calling residents and posing as SLO Police Department staff members in attempts to extort money from them over the phone, according to the police...
By KAREN VELIE More than 1,300 PG&E customers lost power in northern San Luis Obispo County on Wednesday morning. Shortly after 7:20 a.m., power went out for 1,317 customers from west side of Paso Robles to Lake Nacimiento. The cause of the outage remains under investigation. PG&E estimates the electricity...
By KAREN VELIE Both Grover Beach and Atascadero city councils voted this week to raise their sewer rates to cover maintenance and infrastructure improvements. Both councils voted in favor of their city’s proposed rate increases in April. Under Proposition 218, property owners may submit written protests to the rate increases....
By KAREN VELIE A group opposed to the Trump administration is planning three protests in San Luis Obispo County on Saturday. The group’s coordinated events across SLO County are expected to draw 4,000 to 5,000 participants to declare that in America we don’t put up with would-be kings, according to...
By KAREN VELIE A drunk driver crashed into a home in Goleta on Monday evening. The occupants were in a separate area of the home when the crash occurred. Shortly before midnight, a caller reported the crash on the 6200-block of Cathedral Oaks Road. Deputies learned that the driver, 23-year-old...
By KAREN VELIE During a DUI checkpoint on Friday, San Luis Obispo police officers arrested one driver for DUI and cited five people for driving an unlicensed vehicle or for driving with a suspended driver’s license. The department conducted the DUI checkpoint on the 900 block of Marsh Street on...