BY JEREMY THOMAS
As the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department continued its investigation into the shooting death of a Santa Maria police officer by a fellow officer, more details trickl...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
A San Luis Obispo County Superior Court judge dropped a set of misdemeanor charges against a local jewelry store employee accused of buying and attempting to sell two stolen p...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
First Solar finalized a deal to sell off its 550-megawatt Topaz Solar Farm in eastern San Luis Obispo County and furloughed nearly half of its workforce due to engineering pro...
BY NICK POWELL
County planners are beginning to get a clearer picture for how they should deal with a slew of outdoor activities that seem to have baffled most county officials.
On Jan. 26,...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
San Luis Obispo County could soon be tightening the screws on people who improperly keep menacing or aggressive animals.
On Feb. 7, SLO County supervisors are scheduled to in...
BY MATT FOUNTAIN
State regulators have agreed with a Dec. 21 decision by a San Francisco-based administrative law judge to deny Pacific Gas & Electric’s request to use $85 million in cus...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
Officials from the Lucia Mar Unified School District joined Pacific Gas & Electric to break ground on the new Central Coast New Tech High School on Jan. 26.
With co...
BY ROBERT A. McDONALD
The latest round in the fight over the future of the City of Pismo Beach ended in a tie last month, and it remains to be seen who will have the advantage when the conflict res...
BY COLIN RIGLEY
Last summer, San Luis Obispo County’s Human Resources Director Tami Douglas-Schatz held a secret meeting in closed session with the county Board of Supervisors to deliver a ...
BY JASON KEEDY
Sometimes, during my infrequent breaks between texting, Facebooking, or any other sedentary exercise that shrouds itself under the guise of social activity, I think that maybe...
BY DAVID VIENNA
Local musician Chase Hall recently opined in this very section of the paper that a lack of “critical thinking” among fans and artists in San Luis Obispo contributes to wha...
Leslie Ramsey
Thanks for the article on Deputy D.A. Craig Van Rooyen (“D.A. dismisses Doobie Dozen defendants—for now,” Jan. 19).
Here is a guy willing to waste hundreds of thousands...
Gary Nemeth
This Paso Robles council has gotten us into this mess by following App, voting in his recommendations and cuts in programs and services. The council’s No. 1 priority is to p...
Scott C. Presnal
During this election year of 2012, I wonder if the Republican candidates or our President Obama know about the threat of nuclear war when it comes to Israel’s protection? I ...
George Robertson
“[We] will send you a notice within 45 days advising you of the price increase,” the woman replied for the third time!
I asked, “if the price increase is effective on F...
Anne Kellogg
I woke at 3:30 a.m. with thoughts of the trees in Sweet Springs. Aroused in the middle of the night, I wondered why I care about the eucalyptus trees—these non-native trees,...
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My favorite activity of all time—better than playing hide and seek with blind orphans, better than tickling puppies until they giggle rainbows—is tossing back a six-pack o...
What would be the worst thing to find in the trunk of your car?
BY MAEVA CONSIDINE
It’s no secret that SLO’s streets can harbor some rather offensive smells stemming from late-night bar crawls.The wonderful earthy and fresh-laundry-infused scent that pou...
BY ANNA WELTNER
Attending the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s opening weekend with the intention of generating some sort of conclusive report is a fool’s errand at best. There...
BY GLEN STARKEY
It’s Saturday, Jan. 28, at 11:30 a.m. when I arrive at 672 Higuera St., where artists have been arriving since 8 a.m. to pay $25 to enter up to three pieces in a juried ar...
BY ANNA WELTNER
The work of computer technician-turned-artist Steven Boothe and the premise of Peter Lovenheim’s book In the Neighborhood have so much in common, it’s a relief they found ...
BY GLEN STARKEY
“Hey, my vagina is eight miles wide, absolutely everyone can come inside, if you’re ever frightened just run and hide, my vagina is eight miles wide.”
Those are the lyr...
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Director and co-writer Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces, The A-Team) directs Liam Neeson and Dermot Mulroney as two members of an Alaskan oil drilling crew that struggles to survi...
BY MAEVA CONSIDINE
“It’s over.”
Maybe the words were said in a text, or a tweet, or maybe they weren’t said at all, but the fact remains: Your relationship is kaput. Whether it was a ...
This lovely, elegant white wine by winemaker Steve Clifton is a great choice for an aperitif, or for pairing with raw or cooked fish. Pale in color and quite dry, it offers fr...
I loved this elegant Zinfandel (I can’t remember the last time I described a Central Coast Zinfandel as elegant) at first sip. An amazing blend of red and black berries with...
A selection of wineries and galleries in downtown Paso Robles will stay open from 5 to 8 p.m. on Feb. 4 for First Saturdays: Wine and the Arts. Seven venues will participate i...
On Feb. 4, you can experience the magic of Dancing with the Stars or So You Think You Can Dance without staring at a television screen. The only difference is that there will ...
If you’ve ever been flung across time and space by an oddball artist from Boston, you know how discombobulating it can be, and how nothing rectifies the situation like good ...
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