Atascadero News

Paso Robles’ growth over the past 30 years has added hundreds of homes on the east side of the Salinas River, including the tightly packed Riverbank neighborhood off Willowbank Lane behind Walmart.

Over the past 30 years, levels in the underground aquifer have dropped precipitously, 80 to 100 feet or more in some areas.

Atascadero uses water from the same general basin as Paso Robles, but studies from 2006 show that it’s not facing the same level of water shortage — yet.

America’s political environment makes it difficult for citizens to have confidence in those responsible for governing, particularly in the area of money.

A new retail development proposed for downtown Atascadero is slated to go before the city’s Planning Commission on Tuesday night.

The project will eliminate a safety hazard on the 260-foot-long bridge just south of Center Street by adding sufficient bridgewidth to accommodate sidewalks.

A San Luis Obispo man, who recently turned himself in to San Luis Obispo police claiming he robbed a bank in Atascadero, now claims he is innocent.

Editor's note: This is the first installment in a five-part series. Coming Monday: How the falling groundwater levels have affected four North County homeowners and businesses.

If you want to give Dad a non-traditional gift for Father's Day -- we're talking about skipping the ties, cufflinks and socks, here -- consider giving him the gift of his own, personalized space; his "Man Cave."

With its wine grapes, relatively affordable housing and recovering labor market, San Luis Obispo County sits at the leading edge of the recovering in the Tri-Counties and statewide.

The largest lingcod caught by a sports fisherman off the Central Coast in a number of years was bagged early Sunday afternoon by an Atascadero angler.

What should soon-to-be-ex-Atascadero City Manager Wade McKinney do with all the money he's going to make at his new job? The following article was posted on June 12th, 2013, in the New Times - Volume 27, Issue 46 [ Submit a Story ] The human body has always had the ability to repulse and excite.

What should soon-to-be-ex-Atascadero City Manager Wade McKinney do with all the money he's going to make at his new job? The following article was posted on June 12th, 2013, in the New Times - Volume 27, Issue 46 [ Submit a Story ] Jake McGuire is Yank, a disillusioned engine stoker, in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape.

It's been more than five years since the state's proposal to buy 584 acres of county-owned dunes land for recreational vehicle use crossed county planners' desks, and though that sale has long sat idle thanks to opposition from the environmental community, it seems there's a quiet effort to lobby the Board of Supervisors to once again take up the ... (more)

A central piece of property in downtown Atascadero scarred by a fire may be reborn if a new commercial development proposal becomes a reality.

It's officially official. It is with great sadness, glee, melancholy, and a little more glee that I inform you that this esteemed column is about to lose one of its longtime stars.

BanjerDan is traveling through Montana, Washington and Nevada, and as he heads down the California Coast he will be making a stop in Santa Paula for one night at the Santa Paula Theater Center, Saturday, June 8, to present 'Wow! Banjos Rock!' The concert is appropriate for all ages, with the doors opening at 7 p.m.; the performance begins at 7:30.

Atascadero’s elected officials remained tight-lipped Tuesday night about what’s next for the city now that City Manager Wade McKinney has formally resigned .

A man claiming to have robbed two local banks turned himself in to police Tuesday.

Investigators with the San Luis Obispo Police Department are interviewing a suspect who turned himself in Tuesday, claiming to be the person who recently robbed banks in San Luis Obispo and Atascadero.