Cambria News

Michelle Obama, the nation's first lady and a high-profile spokeswoman for healthy eating, has added a new book on growing and cooking nutritious food to her resume.

Strawberries were abundant this weekend at the 29th annual Strawberry Festival in Arroyo Grande, which featured entertainment, crafts booths and the Strawberry Stampede run/walk on Sunday.

A century-old lost coin leads to the rediscovery of what was once the centerpiece of a long-gone community.

The latest round of U.N. climate talks has failed to resolve how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.

We were as surprised as our readers when longtime Cambrian columnist John Brannon chose to announce his retirement from writing his “My Turn” column in the May 10 edition.

San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s officials are in the process of removing fuel and about a dozen bales of marijuana from a panga boat that was found abandoned on a beach about two miles north of Piedras Blancas.

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

Santa Lucia Middle School children got an up-close and personal taste of the media they love so well — Internet videos; more specifically, YouTube, on Wednesday, May 16.

May is a special month for a group of Cambria bridge players, some of whom have been trumping each other for nearly 60 years.

Tom Gray — a communications consultant, author, editor and national award-winning editorial writer — is the new chairman of the North Coast Advisory Council .

Today and Friday will continue to be windy, local forecaster John Lindsey says, and then a late-spring storm will drop down the West Coast on Saturday and bring overcast, drizzly and even potential rain showers to San Luis Obispo County.

Two weeks after Nipomo area property owners voted against a tax increase that would have financed a water pipeline from Santa Maria, local leaders took the first step toward curtailing future growth in the unincorporated community.

Pups in her womb, a large eye visible behind the rib cage, one baby stuck in the birth canal, all fossilized in stone, modern-day evidence of how this ancient marine beast, the Ichthyosaur, died: in childbirth.

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.

A gay student who sued his Ohio high school for prohibiting him from wearing a T-shirt designed to urge tolerance of gays will be allowed to wear the shirt to school whenever he chooses.

Authorities say a man plunged at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls and survived - only the third person known to have gone over without a safety device and lived.

High schools in Arroyo Grande and Cambria lead San Luis Obispo County rankings in the fourth U.S. News & World Report list of the best in the nation, according to rankings posted May 8 on www.usnews.com. Arroyo Grande High School is ranked 124th in the state and 665th nationally with an academic performance index of 809 and a student-to-teacher ... (more)

The Justice Department says it is extending to next Jan. 31 a deadline for making existing swimming pools accessible to the disabled.

Some luxury items are going up for silent auction from May 30 through June 15, with the donations helping send some 26 children from 15 families in San Simeon and Cambria to YMCA summer camp held at Cambria Grammar School.

Restoration of Cambria’s rare and long-hidden Chinese temple is complete and will be celebrated with a public open house from noon to 2 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at the Greenspace Creekside Reserve on Center Street in East Village.