San Simeon News

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.

Investigators worked a good portion of the day to remove fuel and marijuana from a panga boat discovered in San Luis Obispo County.

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

Audits are important for a number of reasons, but most importantly for the Oceano Community Services District; they are required to borrow money.

Just before Easter, the leader of the Abbey of New Clairvaux, walked into the monestary's newest building, looked up at the vaulted ceiling and used an expression not often heard from a Catholic monk.

Sporting crumpled catwalks and smashed lifeboats, the U.S. Navy vessel USS Essex managed to glide into San Diego Bay on Thursday, 24 hours after colliding with a tanker in the Pacific Ocean when the aging warship's steering apparently failed.

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.

Jeremiah L. Hernandez, a member of a group that burned an 11-foot cross near a mixed-race Arroyo Grande family's home in 2011, was captured on a gas station video, had ties to people with white supremacist beliefs and was overheard talking about the incident, a prosecutor charged Friday.

The U.S. Navy says its training and testing using sonar and explosives could potentially hurt more dolphins and whales in Hawaii and California waters than previously thought.

There was no North Coast Advisory Council election May 1. Instead, the council is to appoint candidates who applied for vacancies in even-numbered areas, and the group continues seeking alternates and representatives for some positions.

Hearst Castle Theater’s giant screen will come alive with National Marine Sanctuary underwater treasures at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 5. Holly Lohuis, marine biologist and field producer for Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Futures Society, will meet with the public and tell stories from her experiences around the world and deep in the sea.

Where in the San Francisco Bay area can you find a secluded, historic hacienda built for the rich and famous in 1928? It's said this home was designed to beA a mini-San Simeon.

A lot of people I know look at retirement not as an end but a beginning. And plein air painter Betty Woollomes is a significant example.

As government engineers work to keep the nation's fourth-busiest seaport from losing its competitive edge, they are also planning what amounts to a massive science project to ensure fish in the harbor can still breathe.