Pismo Beach News

From left, Tommy Healey, Mario Nunez, Matt Keating, Chris Willkomm and Jeremy Reed race to eat pancakes Saturday at Penny’s All American Cafe in Pismo Beach during a pancake-eating contest to benefit the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County.

A cold front and rain kept crowds away from Millerton Lake at the start of the three-day Memorial Day holiday weekend, but the state park heated up with picnickers and boaters on Sunday.

I recently loaded my wife and son into the Quest and headed up to San Luis Obispo for a weekend getaway.

As members of a Grover Beach audience clutched campaign signs and scribbled questions on index cards, the two men running for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors made final pleas for votes during their last appearance together before the June 5 election.

San Luis Obispo police say they’ve seen an increase in the number of vehicle thefts reported to the department this month.

Usually, I don't like the word "clammy" as a description, unless you're referring to Pismo Beach, a great California coastal getaway that once billed itself as the "Clam Capital of the World.

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

Hundreds of guests at a beachside Hawaii resort have been evacuated from the hotel after police shot and killed a man in the parking lot who was suspected of stealing a vehicle.

Back in the day, travel-trailer owners used their personal vehicles or shop trucks to tote their Airstreams or Vagabonds cross country - there were no one-ton turbo-diesel crew cabs with navigation systems and leather seats.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers want to give taxpayers the ability to use tax refunds as a kind of Pay Pal-style currency to keep state parks off the hit list.

A South County lawyer was sentenced to five years' probation and credit for 213 days of time served in County Jail today after pleading no contest to felony grand theft by embezzlement.

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.

Matt Palmer, center, from Bakersfield is poured a glass of wine from Clayhouse Vineyards at the 30th annual Paso Robles Wine Festival.

A chain collision involving about a half-dozen buses east of Atlanta trapped one driver and forced medical officials to examine more than 50 children for injuries.

Department of Natural Resources spokesman Kevin Baskins says crews are asking the man to wiggle to see if he can get free as they widen a narrow part of the cave at Maquoketa Caves State Park.

In most developed countries, children with autism are usually sent to school where they get special education classes.

A 59-year-old male was hospitalized with major injuries Thursday night after wrecking his truck on Highway 101 north of Spyglass Drive in Pismo Beach, according to the CHP.

Obtaining water — a supply that is adequate, reliable and sustainable — will be key to any future development in the Price Canyon area just outside the Pismo Beach city limits.

A celebration of life is planned for Arthur “Art” W. Anthony, a well-known figure in Pismo Beach who recently passed away at the age of 81.

Scolari’s closed its doors for good at its four Central Coast supermarket locations at 7 p.m. Wednesday after more than 60 years in business.