Morro Bay News

Morro Bay's incumbent Mayor Bill Yates and current Councilwoman Carla Borchard are facing off for the top council seat in the June 5 primary.

Caltrans says it will need to replant screening shrubs in Morro Bay because a small insect, called thrips, infected the plants earlier this year.

Los Angeles itself is Spanish for 'The Angels'. However, people are drawn to this densely populated region not for any saintly or angelic reputation but rather by its earthly attractions Shortly after we drove out of San Francisco, we encountered a traffic jam caused by a major accident.

Oil industry executive Rock Zierman is being deceptive when he attributes a 15 percent reduction in U.S. oil imports to increased domestic production alone.

Monday We took you to Agoura's first Sustainable Living and Environmental Fair, organized by the Los Angeles County Public Library.

San Luis Obispo Police have released a forensic artist’s sketch of a man suspected in a May 3 robbery of the Golden 1 Credit Union bank at 852 Foothill Boulevard.

Smith was last seen between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Tuesday leaving a friend's house in Oak Park, CA.

"Beer Here" opens Friday at the New-York Historical Society in New York City. The exhibit traces the history of beer in New York all the way back to drunken Colonial times.

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 Guard Sector Los Angeles Long Beach is scheduled to hold a change-of-command ceremony at Reservation Point on Terminal Island, May 25th at 10 a.m. Capt.

The Cambria Otter Trolley will be back for the summer starting Saturday, May 26, offering free rides from about 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays through Mondays.

A Morro Bay native will show off her acting chops — and her best bloodcurdling scream — in “Chernobyl Diaries,” the latest horror flick from “Paranormal Activity” creator Oren Peli.

Tara Addeo says when her brother Gavin Smith didn't pick up his teenage son for school, the family knew something was wrong.

While the focus at the inaugural Central Coast Oyster Festival is definitely the world-renowned oysters of Morro Bay, an impressive and widely varied line-up of headlining bands is also scheduled to perform, including viral internet sensation, Walk Off The Earth .

A cold front, coupled with an area of high pressure over the Pacific, will produce winds as powerful as 60 mph.

The project calls for a boardwalk trail to be installed on a 10-acre peninsula at the marina that will be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act .

Unlike the vigorous storms that march across the Pacific Ocean and slam into California with all their might, stargazing sometimes can seem a little uneventful for many of us without a telescope.

A suspected cockfighting operation was discovered by San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s deputies after someone living near the operation in Morro Bay reported it to authorities.

'I was a tourist in Seal Guantanamo,' and other tales of the Morro Bay Aquarium

BY COLIN RIGLEY

It’s been called “Morro Bay Seal Penitentiary,” “Seal Guantanamo,” “the worst aquarium in the world,” “torture chamber,” “fish dungeon,” and “the saddest aquarium on Earth.” In the dimly lit room of the Morro Bay Aquarium, a woman wiped away tears as she passed one of about a dozen tanks.

A coin toss on Friday will decide the outcome of a West Texas city council election in which the candidates received the same number of votes.