SLO County gas prices steady, find lowest costs
By KAREN VELIE The average price for a gallon of gas in San Luis Obispo County held steady at $4.92 a gallon last week despite flooding at a refinery leading to an increase in the national average price of gas, according to figures from AAA. In California, the average price...
Santa Barbara County deputies arrest fragrant felons
By KAREN VELIE Santa Barbara County sheriff deputies on Friday arrested three men suspected of stealing nearly $2,000 of perfume from a store in Goleta. Shortly after 2 p.m. on Friday, a caller from Ulta Beauty in the Camino Real Marketplace reported that suspects had fled the store with stolen...
California woman registers dog to vote, gets ballots after death
By KAREN VELIE A California woman registered her dog to vote, cast a vote-by-mail ballot in her pet’s name, and continued getting ballots for her dog after its death. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office recently charged Laura Lee Yourex, 62, with five felonies. Yourex’s dog voted in the 2021...
Fire leads to evacuations and road closure near San Luis Obispo
By KAREN VELIE The Walnut Fire off See Canyon Road near San Luis Obispo has burned more than 20 acres leading to road closures and evacuations. Shortly before 12:40 p.m., a caller reported the fire burning near the intersection of See Canyon Road and Black Walnut Road. Twenty minutes later,...
Mainstream media absent on plans to gerrymander California
OPINION by GREG HASKIN An enormously important issue is before California voters and will be decided in just two months, yet it is unlikely that you will read or hear much about it, or at least any significant details about it, from the mainstream media. Proposition 50, called “Courage California”...
Santa Barbara Sutter Health employees demeaned patients, fired
By KAREN VELIE Sutter Health Urgent Care in Santa Barbara recently fired a group of employees who posted a video on TikTok of staffers pointing and looking disgusted over bodily fluids left on examination tables. After the TikTok video went viral, it was taken down. But by that time, others...
Arroyo Grande massage therapist accused of sexual assault
By KAREN VELIE Officers arrested an Arroyo Grande massage therapist on Thursday for allegedly sexually assaulting a victim with a foreign object, according to the Arroyo Grande Police Department. Following up on a complaint, officers conducted an investigation into 33-year-old Jeffrey Bennett Bowers, the owner of SLO Massage Therapy on...
