Santa Margarita News

Drivers along the Cuesta Grade should expect the far-right southbound lane of Highway 101 to be closed up to six months as crews build a retaining wall along the freeway starting Tuesday.

An Atascadero man who killed his wife in 2008 behaved normally at a family member’s Las Vegas wedding a week before the murder, according to testimony presented Friday.

With the scenic landscape of our local vineyards, wine tours can be so much more than visits to tasting rooms.

A psychologist testified Wednesday that an Atascadero man, who is accused of bludgeoning his wife to death with a hammer in 2008, believed he was sacrificing her to perform God’s will.

Judge John Trice ruled today in San Luis Obispo Superior Court that Downs did not know that what he was doing was morally or legally wrong.

A second doctor who examined double-homicide suspect Andrew Downs testified in a court hearing Friday that the defendant was criminally insane at the time of the crime.

An obvious question following signing day is how the numbers now check out for UW.

A widower of one of the two sisters killed in Santa Margarita on Christmas Day 2010 took the stand during the fourth day of the insanity trial for Andrew Downs.

The Atascadero man charged with killing two sisters in Santa Margarita on Christmas Day in 2010 was in a psychotic state that day, according to a psychiatrist who testified Tuesday in San Luis Obispo Superior Court.

Murder suspect Andrew Wesley Downs shot and killed two sisters in Santa Margarita last year because he thought they were military officers who were part of an evil government conspiracy against the world, a forensic psychiatrist testified Monday.

Donald Robert Baker, 40, of Templeton, who has been staying in Santa Margarita in recent weeks, didn’t appear for his 3 p.m. sentencing today.

Even though football coach Harry Welch has been cleared by the Orange County District Attorney's office for his role in an incident at Santa Margarita Catholic High , the school isn't ready to reinstate him from the paid administrative leave he has been on since Jan.

The defense attorneys for murder suspect Ty Michael Hill argued Thursday that crucial evidence wasn’t handed over by prosecutors before a preliminary hearing.

County/Cal Fire reports that firefighters have a roughly four-acre brush fire under control Sunday afternoon along McMillan Canyon Road in the Shandon area north of Highway 41.

Highway 1 was closed to through traffic late Sunday morning after debris covered both lanes of the road in the Rain Rocks area about 48 miles north of Cambria.

Construction continues on a project to widen the Santa Maria River bridge along Highway 101 near the San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara county line.

In this Monday, Aug. 22, 2011, photo, quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr., are inscribed in the wall at the Martin Luther King, Jr.