San Luis Obispo police holding DUI checkpoint Friday night
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo police plan to conduct a DUI checkpoint in the city limits on Friday evening from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. at an undisclosed location. The department selects the location based on a history of DUI crashes and arrests. Officers check licenses and insurance while...
Clerk error leads judge to revoke Paso Robles basin quiet title ruling
By KAREN VELIE A week after a judge signed a ruling regarding the Paso Robles Groundwater basin quiet title lawsuit, she revoked it because the court clerk had failed to properly process the prevailing party’s proposed ruling. On Sept. 24, a judge signed a ruling that the more than 800...
Under fire, SLO City Manager Whitney McDonald resigning
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo City Manager Whitney McDonald announced plans to resign between now and mid-January during a city council meeting on Tuesday. McDonald is hoping to pursue a career in psycho therapy. “After a lot of deep reflection, I have some bitter sweet news to convey,” McDonald...
One person died in E. coli outbreak in San Luis Obispo County
By KAREN VELIE San Luis Obispo County Public Health confirmed on Nov. 10 a death tied to the E. coli outbreak linked to a pumpkin farm. In late October, five San Luis Obispo County residents tested positive for E. coli after visiting Brookshire Farms off Los Osos Valley Road. Among...
Nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in SLO County without power
By KAREN VELIE Nearly 9,000 PG&E customers in northern San Luis Obispo County are without power on Tuesday evening. At 5:35 a.m., 8,962 PG&E customers lost power from northern Paso Robles through Creston and parts of Santa Margarita. This is an unplanned outage. PG&E estimates the power will be restored...
Deputies investigating suspicious death in Guadalupe
By KAREN VELIE Santa Barbara County sheriff deputies are investigating the death of a man whose body was found near the gazebo area of the Veterans Memorial in Guadalupe on Monday morning. Shortly before 2 a.m., a caller reported a man down on the 800-block of Guadalupe Street. Guadalupe police...
Driver gets Porsche stuck on train tracks in San Luis Obispo
By JOSH FRIEDMAN A driver made a wrong turn and got a Porsche stuck on the railroad tracks near Cal Poly Saturday night, resulting in the car getting towed. The driver mistook the markings at the railroad crossing on Foothill Boulevard at California Boulevard, turned onto the tracks and got...
