By KAREN GARCIA
After a four-year struggle to keep the Cayucos Fire Department afloat, the Cayucos Fire Protection District is handing its department over to San Luis Obispo County.
Steve Be...
By CHRIS MCGUINNESS
A 24-year-old Nipomo man arrested for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death had been deported from the United States nine months before the murder, according to Federal i...
By PETER JOHNSON
Is homelessness getting better in SLO County?
That was the question debated at the SLO County Board of Supervisors meeting on June 6, when supervisors took a look at the stat...
By CHRIS MCGUINNESS
Former South SLO County Sanitation District Administrator John Wallace is once again facing felony charges after the SLO County District Attorney’s Office announced it filed...
By CHRIS MCGUINNESS
After a brief period of freedom, Cambria resident Ronald Cowan is back behind bars as SLO County prosecutors take a second run at convicting him of multiple charges of child m...
By PETER JOHNSON
Your visit to downtown San Luis Obispo is about to get even pricier, especially if you bring your car.
The SLO City Council approved a new parking rate structure on June 6, w...
By PETER JOHNSON
San Luis Obispo’s sewage system is old.
How old? Thirteen percent of SLO’s 137 miles of wastewater pipeline dates back to before World War II, and some pipes can be trace...
By REUEL CZACH
My heart hurt after I read the words written by Al Fonzi recently, in an opinion piece called “Neither bigots nor haters” (May 25). I feel sad that while I sense that he h...
By AL FONZI
“The sky is falling” should begin each and every future news story regarding the Paris Climate Accord. The leftist media are acting with the zealotry of new converts in ...
By Ryan Lovejoy - California Valley
Cannabis is currently bringing immense value in many forms to all of the people residing in the California Valley. Whether a landowner grows cannabis or not, his or her proper...
By Gary Wechter - Arroyo Grande
I couldn’t be happier or more pleased with President Trump’s decision to remove us from the Paris climate accord, an agreement that was bad for America and another campaig...
By Ethel 'Tink' Landers - GALA Volunteer Art Curator, San Luis Obispo
When I read about the rainbow flag burned at Mayor Heidi Harmon’s home I reflected on times past. I’m 67 years old and have been a participant at GALA (Gay and Lesbian All...
By Mike Sassard - Paso Robles
I am not a politician, I do not have a Ph.D., but I put my faith in those who have put in a lot of study and are telling and warning us about our climate changing. They also d...
By Jeannette Watson - Arroyo Grande
With Hillary Clinton’s recent reappearance and Kathy Griffin’s bizarre stunt, we are witnessing a new phenomenon: the art of blaming others for self-inflicted wounds.
Sad...
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It’s been well documented that since his Orange Unholiness Dicknold Jerkface Trumplethinskin has risen to power, hate crimes have broken out across the nation. Apparently ...
What is your favorite locally produced food item?
By KAREN GARCIA
Walking down Monterey Street, you’ll stumble upon the clear windows of a new shop with a teal colored sign. Entering Pipsticks induces what owner and founder Maureen Vázque...
By GLEN STARKEY
Three years ago, Todd and Korie Newman loaded up their recreational vehicle, “Marvey the RV,” and drove their kids, Rohn and Acacia, to the Live Oak Music Festival for the...
By RYAH COOLEY
While the list of hot-button topics bound to start WWIII at your family dinner table are ever changing in the current political landscape, on any given day the wall President ...
By GLEN STARKEY
It’s Saturday, June 3, and the line to get into The Siren stretches way around the block. All these people are waiting to get into the sold-out Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin and...
By RYAH COOLEY
Mark the start of summer by catching the final concert of the season for the Cal Poly Symphony on June 10.
The show starts at 8 p.m. in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Cen...
By RYAH COOLEY
One of the best things about life in SLO is the abundance of hiking trails. To get everyone hitting the dirt road, the city of SLO is throwing down a social media challenge: t...
By RYAH COOLEY
Send young Picassos with too much time on their hands to the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art’s first session of summer art classes for kids from June 19 to 23.
Kids ages 7 an...
By KATRINA BORGES
When? 2013 | What’s it rated? R | Where’s it available? Amazon Video, DVD.
I was first introduced to Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters by one of my college room...
By CAMILLIA LANHAM
Winemakers have kept a secret from us—the wine-drinking public—for decades: Rosé is amazing.
OK, it’s not like they were keeping it a secret on purpose. The public is ...
By KATRINA BORGES
When you think of burgers, you probably think mostly of fast food, or at least something pretty straightforward. At Wee Shack, however, a burger isn’t just a meal—it’s a...
By CHRIS MCGUINNESS
I don’t know who first came up with the idea of combining breakfast and lunch, but I’m sure glad they did. If they didn’t, how else would you load up your plate with sav...
By RYAH COOLEY AND KAREN GARCIA
Our friendship was sealed at Black Sheep in San Luis Obispo when we bonded over our shared love of their original pub mac ’n’ cheese, in all its gooey, luscious, baked glo...
By GLEN STARKEY
Add Santa Maria’s Presqu’ile (pronounced press-KEEL) Winery to the list of boutique wineries now hosting concerts. On Friday, June 9, in partnership with Good Medicine Pre...
Patty Jenkins (writer-director of Monster) directs this origin story of Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), who was raised as Diana, an Amazon princess trained as an unbeatable warrio...
By HAYLEY THOMAS CAIN
Spin the globe and pick a place. Yep. They’ve got pickles. From funky kimchi in South Korea to umami-packed pickled herring in Sweden to sauerkraut in Germany and pickled ma...
Does your kid know the difference between raw, real veggies pulled from the dirt and those weird, chemically washed “baby carrots” encased beneath plastic wrap in their pr...
Mosaics by Anna Meyrick will be on display at Joebella Coffee Roasters in Atascadero through July 31. Meyrick is the resident mosaic artist and an art educator at Studios on t...
Morro Bay’s most famous resident will be the focus of Let’s Rock, an exhibit of paintings, photos, and mixed media pieces on view at Art Center Morro Bay, June 15 through ...
The Central Coast Craftmakers offer their interpretations on the theme Lighten Up, in an exhibit by the same name at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, through July 30. Go to ...
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