San Luis Obispo News

More than a thousand spectators filled the stands of Memorial Field Thursday night to cheer not for a game, but for John Burroughs High School students clearing the final hurdle.

UPPER LAKE Erica Boomer, an agricultural education teacher and Future Farmers of America advisor at Upper Lake Union High School, has been selected as the 2013-14 Lake County Teacher of the Year, Tim Gill, senior director of educational services at Lake County Office of Education announced.

Ernie Dalidio abandoned his plan to create a 131-acre mixed-use-development on his land adjacent to Highway 101 near Madonna Road in San Luis Obispo, and put the property up for sale.

Rounding the bend of the lagoon trail, the first things you hear are the guttural calls.

A fire in a trash can caused a brief disturbance at a San Luis Obispo student-housing complex Thursday morning.

The nonpartisan race for a seat on the San Luis Obispo City Council has taken on a decidedly political bent — the SLO County Democratic Party has spent $4,159 for a pamphlet mailed to voters highlighting candidate Carlyn Christianson’s Democratic values.

A Bakersfield man with a history of traffic offenses was driving with a suspended license last November when he plowed into a vehicle stopped at a construction site, killing the other driver, a California Highway Patrol officer testified Thursday.

In recent days, "SLO Life" in San Luis Obispo is about more than outdoor adventures and chilled-out, flip-flop strolls through town.

If you're a registered voter in the city of San Luis Obispo, then by the time you read this, there may be a ballot for the June 18 special election sitting in your mailbox.

Michelle Dawson, city manager, Moreno Valley tapped John Terell as interim community and economic development director on Thursday, May 23.

A principal in a fraudulent $300 million investment scheme he ran out of the Estate Financial Inc.

The city of San Luis Obispo is having an election to fill the council seat vacated by Andrew Carter .

A karate expert and self-proclaimed psychic who appeared on several national TV shows in the 1980s wants a San Luis Obispo County jury to free him from a mental hospital.

Anxiously waiting outside the emergency room at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center in San Luis Obispo, I tried not to speculate about my husband’s injuries.

During the early morning hours today, May 22nd, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit, Drug Enforcement Agency, San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Department, Lompoc Police Department Narcotics Unit and the Santa Barbara County Regional Narcotics Team served multiple Search and Arrest warrants between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo ... (more)

Three candidates remain in the race: Paul Brown , a police officer in Guadalupe and a former San Luis Obispo councilman; Carlyn Christianson , a former city planning commissioner who is serving her fifth year on the San Luis Obispo County Planning Commission; and Donald Hedrick, an artisan and community advocate.

Turner Newman, who was arrested in March after police found him in a car with loaded weapons outside a San Luis Obispo bank, was sentenced to five years in jail Wednesday morning.

The public may review a Mitigated Negative Declaration/Initial Study for a safety project to realign the existing compound curve on northbound Highway 101 with a single radius curve south of the rest areas in Gaviota.

Select voters in District 2 of San Luis Obispo County have been contacted recently by telephone and asked to participate in a survey about current county supervisor Bruce Gibson.

Taxpayers are footing the bill for sexually violent predator Tibor Karsai's living expenses after he was released as a transient in northern Santa Barbara County.