Shandon News

A whopping 35 percent fewer wine grapes were crushed in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties in 2011 compared with 2010, due in large part to wildly unpredictable weather, according to the preliminary California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Grape Crush Report released Friday.

San Luis Obispo firefighters are responding to a structure fire reported at 685 Higuera St., and as a result, police are going to close off Higuera at Broad Street.

For decades, farmers and fishermen along the Gulf of Mexico watched as their sensitive ecosystem's waters slowly got dirtier and islands eroded, all while the country largely ignored the destruction.

Central Coast ranchers and growers have been invited to Cal Poly on Jan. 30 to tell U.S. Rep.

The weekend’s one-two punch of storms brought much-needed rain to San Luis Obispo County, but the weather today will return to sunny and dry, and forecasters say it will stay that way for the coming week.

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.

Some have advanced degrees and remember middle-class lives. Some work selling lingerie or building websites.

A 74-year-old reputed mobster notorious for stealing the 45-carat Marlborough Diamond from a London jewelry store in 1980 has pleaded guilty in a separate rap just as his trial was set to start in Chicago.

A man was arrested Monday morning in Shandon on suspicion of felony drunken driving and felony child endangerment following a car chase, according to the California Highway Patrol.

A man is facing half a dozen felony counts after leading an officer on a chase Monday morning with his children in the car.