Oceano News

An abandoned 35-foot boat full of about 1,800 pounds of marijuana was found on the coast two miles north of Piedras Blancas on Thursday, May 24, marking the first recent evidence of drug smuggling in the waters along the San Luis Obispo County coast, local officials said.

The San Luis Obispo Police Department is investigating four commercial burglaries that appear to have happened after the businesses closed on Tuesday.

Supporters of a lesbian mother will present a petition at the Boy Scouts of America's annual meeting in Orlando to protest her removal from a troop in Ohio.

Authorities are searching for two murder suspects who escaped from a southwest Arkansas jail by a using a hacksaw blade to saw through metal bars covering a window.

In the months after voters rejected a bond measure to fund a new police station in 2010, Arroyo Grande officials tried to make the officers’ current headquarters a little more livable.

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A Colorado man serving a 48-year prison sentence for the death of his 2-year-old son now faces a murder charge stemming from the disappearance of his wife.

An 18-year-old San Luis Obispo man was arrested early this morning after a high-speed chase in south San Luis Obispo, according to police.

The assault occurred Monday in the 300 block of North Highway 1 in Grover Beach when Kelly Lee Freer assaulted a female companion with a deadly weapon in an attempt to murder her while threatening to do so, said Lt.

A Santa Maria man has been formally charged in San Luis Obispo Superior Court with the gang-related, drive-by shooting murder of a 17-year-old boy in Oceano in November.

Oceano Community Services District board member Rick Searcy resigned Wednesday, citing medical conditions in a letter he wrote Sunday, but was read by board President Matthew Guerrero.

Kevin Villalobos, 24, was arrested Tuesday, three days after the vehicle was reported stolen near the intersection of Marsh and Chorro streets.

A man was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of attempted murder after trying to shoot another man in Oceano, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office.

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)

Oceano Community Services District Board Member Richard Searcy is suspected of driving under the influence and causing an accident on Thursday night that shut down a portion of northbound U.S. Highway 101 for more than an hour.

A bus driver was shot to death in West Hollywood Sunday, allegedly by a passenger who jumped out a vehicle window and fled down a street before being captured, authorities said.

A 21-year-old Santa Maria man was arrested Thursday for the alleged drive-by shooting last year of Gabriel Salgado of Oceano.

Some North Coast weeds are head high already, hillsides are starting to turn brown and the Cambria Community Services District is about to declare that it’s time for selected property owners to clear away “noxious, dangerous, seasonal and/or recurring weeds” and other specific combustible materials.

Sites where levee failures led to the catastrophic flooding after Hurricane Katrina would join Civil War battlefields and Mount Rushmore on a federal list of the nation's historic icons if an activist has her way, but legal foot-dragging by the agency that many blame for the flooding is slowing the effort.

Hauling away old furniture, appliances and junk cars from Shandon will be the focus of a free cleanup event Saturday.