San Luis Obispo County woman facing nine election fraud charges
By KAREN VELIE A San Luis Obispo County woman is facing nine election fraud charges related to the 2022 and 2024 elections. Prosecutors filed charges of voter registration fraud, filing a false declaration of candidacy, fraudulent voting, failure to file campaign finance reports, and for perjury by declaration against 62-year-old Gaea...
Morro Bay City Council terminates City Manager Yvonne Kimball
By KAREN VELIE After less than two years on the job, Morro Bay City manager Yvonne Kimball was terminated on Tuesday. The Morro Bay City Council voted 2-3 in closed session on Tuesday to dismiss Kimball without cause with Mayor Carla Wixom and Councilman Jeff Eckles dissenting. The council did...
Atascadero man sentenced to seven years for deadly hit-and-run
By KAREN VELIE A 31-year-old Atascadero man was sentenced to seven years in prison on Wednesday for a hit-and-run crash that killed an 11-year-old boy in March. Zachary Bernal pleaded to charges of vehicular manslaughter, narcotics possession, and hit-and-run resulting in death. Bernal cried as he spoke of his quilt...
Trump administration tells California to ban transgender athletes
By KAREN VELIE The Trump administration announced on Wednesday that the California Department of Education and the state’s high school sports federation have violated civil rights law by allowing transgender students to compete on girls sports teams. Federal laws require schools receiving federal funding to provide girls an equal opportunity...
Grand Jury finds multiple failures to protect San Luis Obispo residents
By KAREN VELIE The San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury found that San Luis Obispo has failed to protect its residents from loud and ruckus parties hosted by Cal Poly students, according to a report released on June 23. The city also failed to enforce permit requirements for rowdy fraternities....
SLO police catch gas station clerk with meth during tobacco sting
By JOSH FRIEDMAN San Luis Obispo police arrested a gas station clerk who allegedly sold tobacco to a minor and was in possession of methamphetamine last week. On Friday, detectives conducted an operation in which a supervised person under the age of 21 tried purchase tobacco products. At about 11:30...
Greenlight is interfering with Morro Bay, time to call them out
OPINION by MANDY DAVIS For such a small town, and with Morro Bay’s relatively low population density we sure as hell have a lot of folks from out of town, with lots of money and questionable ethics and tactics, interested in us! Case in point; the Washington D.C. based Greenlight...
