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...
What landed 25 half-marathon runners in Santa Barbara in hospitals?
By KAREN VELIE The Santa Barbara Police Department is investigating why 25 runners who participated in a half-marathon race on Sunday were admitted to local hospitals. As of Monday morning, medical staff has discharged 18 of the runners. Doctors are working to determine if the illnesses were heat related or...
Crowing over Tuesday’s wins
By DELL FRANKLIN Editor’s Note: The following series, “Life in Radically Gentrifying Cayucos by the Sea,” to be posted biweekly includes the notes, thoughts, and opinions of an original American voice: author Dell Franklin. Franklin’s latest book – “Hitchhiking, A Destiny” – is currently on Amazon. Was I glued to...
Veterans, active military get free haircuts in Pismo Beach
By KAREN VELIE Price Street Men’s Grooming in Pismo Beach is offering free haircuts to active-duty military members and veterans on Nov. 11 as a small way to thank them for their service. “Giving back to our military and veteran community is something that’s important to all of us at...
Report identifies SLO County beaches at risk for severe flooding
By KAREN VELIE A new report from UC Davis identifies six areas of California at risk for severe coastal flooding during the winter of 2026-2027, including the Avila Beach and Pismo Beach areas of San Luis Obispo County. A combination of a Kelvin Wave, King Tides, and El Nino conditions...
