San Luis Obispo County News

A husband and wife team of internationally known environmentalists, paid handsomely to oversee a San Luis Obispo County sanctuary for infirm animals, has ordered the accelerating slaughter of many of their wards.

Many are also familiar with Italian spumante or Spanish cava. Dave Hickey is sparkling winemaker at Laetitia Winery.

A man is blaming his dog for his wife's shooting death in San Luis Obispo County.

Officials with the San Luis Obispo County Public Health Department says, they additional doses of the H1N1 nasal spray vaccine are on their way.

Many San Luis Obispo County employees may have the option of working from home in 2010.. It would cut down on greenhouse gas emissions and possibly save money.

More than 450 people volunteered at 25 sites throughout San Luis Obispo County on Saturday, October 24, as part of the 11th annual Make A Difference Day.

Swine flu shots are being handed out this week in San Luis Obispo County schools.

After 11 years of educating county voters on public access television about the workings of local government, the League of Women Voters says it has 'run out of material' and will suspend its thrice-weekly interview show.

The stepmother of a San Miguel man charged with the attempted murder of a pregnant Paso Robles woman said Tuesday she and other family members were looking for answers on what might have led to the shooting.

Stephen Smith of San Miguel was arrested over the weekend, after a woman identified him as being the man who shot her several times Friday night.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department's High-Tech Crimes Unit has tracked down a Santa Barbara County teenager behind a series of threats and false emergencies reported to law enforcement agencies in several counties.

The San Luis Obispo County economy won't get much worse this year and will likely start improving next year.

The U.S. Coast Guard dispatched officers by air and sea Tuesday afternoon to investigate a runaway fishing vessel apparently moving through the ocean 130 miles southwest of San Francisco with nobody aboard after the owner's body was found in the water earlier in the day.

Despite a countywide shortage of the H1N1 vaccine - reflecting a nationwide problem - a small number of local schoolchildren will receive it in the coming weeks.

As holidays go, El Dia de los Muertos - known in English as "The Day of the Dead" - is far from bleak.

Two San Luis Obispo County residents were among four killed in a traffic accident Friday on Highway 46 in Kern County, according to a report by the Taft Midway Driller newspaper Web site.

Current Situation: This information release relating to the current flu season and H1N1 Flu in San Luis Obispo County will be followed by weekly updates that will include accurate information about local and statewide statistics, prevention efforts including vaccine distribution and ways to obtain further information.

A Marine captain and San Luis Obispo High School alumnus is recovering in a hospital in Germany after he lost one of his lower legs and suffered other serious injuries in a helicopter crash Monday in Afghanistan.

Two men, waiting until the sun went down, scaled a fence and crossed a roof "ninja style" Sunday night to break out a pet pit bull in the Animal Services Center located next to the Sheriff's Department headquarters, according to sheriff's officials.

The county District Attorney's Office has filed a misdemeanor complaint of driving under the influence against a former CHP captain found in a stopped state car by sheriff's deputies late on the evening of March 12 in rural Templeton.