The numbers are in for the fifth annual Sunset Savor the Central Coast and though it continues to lose money, organizers report the event had a $4.48 million economic impact. [Tribune] Savor the Central Coast is a four-day food and... (Continue reading)
The San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission again made no decision Thursday on a mining proposal for rural Santa Margarita that is dividing neighbors and county residents. Longtime Santa Margarita residents Mike Cole and Steve Souza are applying for a... (Continue reading)
By KAREN VELIE As the application for a conditional use permit for a Santa Margarita property zoned for mining winds through the county, neighbors are taking sides in the heated battle over potential transformations to the community if the permit... (Continue reading)
The California Highway Patrol identified a 56-year-old Santa Margarita man who died in a motorcycle crash Wednesday as Thomas Edwin Craig III. At about 10:30 a.m., Craig passed a vehicle, lost control, crashed and was thrown from his bike on... (Continue reading)
A man died Wednesday morning after he crashed his motorcycle near Santa Margarita. The motorcyclist lost control of his bike around 10:30 a.m. on Huer Huer Road about three miles south of Highway 58. Upon crashing, the man was ejected... (Continue reading)
San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Santa Margarita man Tuesday, who is accused of stealing more than $100,000 worth of property and committing at least 12 burglaries in North County. Sheriff’s investigators received reports of burglaries in North... (Continue reading)
A request for a license for the Sunset Savor the Central Coast festival will be discussed at Tuesday’s San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors meeting. The event, currently in its fifth year, has been growing in numbers and for... (Continue reading)
Three teenage boys were arrested Wednesday on Highway 101 just north of Santa Margarita on suspicion of carjacking a woman in Visalia. Two teens allegedly jacked the car and a purse from a woman in a Target store parking lot... (Continue reading)
An apartment fire in Santa Margarita early Wednesday morning left one person in a local hospital. [KSBY] The fire broke out around 2:20 a.m. in an apartment in the 22800 block of El Camino Real in the Santa Margarita area.... (Continue reading)
A Santa Margarita man who allegedly shot another man in the face during a family argument was arrested early Saturday morning in Atascadero. At about 6:20 a.m., Steven Lee Gregge, 43, allegedly shot Nickolas John Gulley, 21, at a home... (Continue reading)