Arroyo Grande News

The Arroyo Grande Police Department hopes to have traffic signals at Branch and Traffic Way restored by Friday night, after a woman crashed her car into the traffic light at Wesley Avenue and Grande Avenue.

A tiny Canadian company says it has raised enough money from a stock offering to start producing oil from Utah's tar sands for a first-of-its kind project in the U.S. U.S. Oil Sands Inc.

Audits are important for a number of reasons, but most importantly for the Oceano Community Services District; they are required to borrow money.

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled that the German mother of a serial arson suspect should be extradited from the United States to face numerous fraud charges.

The Missouri House has spent more than $1,100 in taxpayer money on a security camera to keep watch over a new bronze bust of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.

Coast Union High School exchange students Maria-Sole Scalia and Dinh Nguyen Truong point to where they came to Cambria from.

As organizers gear up for the California Mid State Fair , slated to run from July 18 to July 29 at the Paso Robles Events Center, they encourage the public to keep the following deadlines in mind: Friends of the Fair applications are due by 4 p.m. June 15.

The following article was posted on May 24th, 2012, in the New Times - Volume 26, Issue 43 [ Submit a Story ] The 29th annual Arroyo Grande Strawberry Festival is packed with rad activities.

The Grover Beach City Council, in one relatively quick vote, put an end to the idea of consolidating police services with neighboring Arroyo Grande - at least for the foreseeable future.

A shed fire in a rural area south of Arroyo Grande apparently ignited some ammunition and destroyed the structure Wednesday night.

The man charged with kidnapping and murdering an Anchorage barista attempted to flee Wednesday at a hearing in federal court.

Six Virginia men attempting to recreate Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall's historic 1812 river-scouting journey have tackled the toughest part, plunging into the whitewater of the New River Gorge.

The Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County has added Ellen Curtis to its 17-member board of directors.

When the sidewalk between your front lawn and the county street cracks or otherwise goes bad, who should pay to repair it? You? Or the government agency in charge of keeping the streets in working order? It’s not an easy question to an answer.

Ella Thorp Ellis recently visited her “old stomping grounds” in Oceano and Halcyon, giving a presentation in Arroyo Grande to discuss her recent book, “Dune Child.” Ella, who is 83 years old and lives in Santa Cruz, spent five years as a child living in Moy Mell , a colony of artists, writers, photographers and philosophers ... (more)

Grover Beach officials are moving ahead with the process to sell a piece of property now used as a community garden.

In this May 2, 2012 file photo, Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov.

Local advertising agencies recently won a total of 24 Addy Awards for “excellence in the art of advertising” on the Central Coast, according to the awards listed on the Addy website.

Children from across the nation will have a chance to dine like dignitaries and politicians at the White House this summer as part of a contest to promote healthy eating.

Three of four defendants accused in the burning of a cross outside the bedroom of a black woman in Arroyo Grande last year were sentenced today.