Paso Robles News

Cal Fire crews say an electric blanket is to blame for a fire in a home in northern San Luis Obispo County.

Three months after the governor moved this summer to slash the number of state workers allowed to drive government cars between their homes and offices, a top Schwarzenegger administration official personally approved his own take-home vehicle deal.

San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge Roger Picquet, who overturned the voter-approved Measure J nearly two years ago, is retiring from the bench after 16 years of service, effective Tuesday.

Dozens of bright, colorful holiday bulbs hung delicately on individual strands of fishing wire and push pins from the ceiling of Kurt and Mindy Weide's Paso Robles home.

Six people are vying for two seats for one of Paso Robles' top leadership boards tonight.

Some local Christmas tree retailers are worried this holiday season about fewer sales and lower earnings.

It has been nearly two months since San Luis Obispo County got significant rainfall, but the area is about to enter a week of wet, cold weather, forecasters predict.

Paso Robles developers have to cut back on the size of lawns and how they water them to comply with a new state law taking effect in January.

The San Luis Obispo City Council decided that Katie Lichtig stood out from the other 100 candidates for the city manager position, and that's why all of the members agreed to pay her $221,000 a year to get her to take the job.

Black Friday shoppers will encounter cool temperatures today as a storm system makes its way down the California coast, local forecaster John Lindsey says.

Crews are set to start work next week on disabled-access ramps at various intersections along Oak Street inPaso Robles, funded with federal stimulus money.

Community Health Centers has backed out of its involvement with the BABES county breast-feeding program, but French Hospital has jumped in to fill the gap.

Hundreds of thousands of dollars in statewide sales tax revenue is slated to go to Paso Robles transit operations and roads this year and next.

Volunteer Re'Re' Taylor, left, readies take-away boxes loaded with turkey and fixings from fellow volunteer Ramey Zamora during the annual Thanksgiving Day feast at Centennial Park in Paso Robles.

After being postponed twice, the public auction of a popular Paso Robles winery is set to take place Wednesday morning.

Entering its sixth year, the 2009 San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival is an epic week-long eating and drinking extravaganza.

Police are investigating a former bank employee from Paso Robles who is suspected of embezzling tens of thousands of dollars from a North County youth sports group.

'Beverly Hills, 90210' heartthrob Luke Perry will make an appearance at the Paso Robles Digital Film Festival this weekend, festival founder Benford Stanley announced.

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.

A businessman seeking equal justice is learning that tinted vehicle windows, tinted law enforcement, and tinted truth has put him squarely in the path of conflict with Paso Roblesa dancing police chief, Lisa Solomon.