San Luis Obispo County News

With harvest now in full swing for a range of California commodities, farmers say they are having trouble hiring enough employees to pick their crops.

There will be no more plastic bags in Los Angeles supermarkets, convenience stores, pharmacies, and other big retailers following a resounding 11-1 vote by city council members Tuesday.

Richard Sauret never studied viticulture at a university, but after decades of working on vineyards in his native Paso Robles, he said it doesn’t take a college degree to understand that grapes do not need tons of water to produce quality wine.

Editor's note: This is the third installment in a five-part series. Coming Wednesday: For years, Paso Robles leaders thought their city sat on an endless reservoir of water.

Hope’s Village of SLO, founded in 2011 to combat homelessness throughout San Luis Obispo County, has received nonprofit status as a 501 organization, according to board president Becky Jorgeson.

A 1,028-millibar Eastern Pacific High about 700 miles to the west of San Luis Obispo, combined with a 1,007-millibar low-pressure system over the desert Southwest will produce a steep pressure gradient along the Central Coast.

The Oceano Services District Board of Directors appointed an interim general manager last week to replace the Tom Geaslen, who was recently terminated for cause.

I am writing today in response to your recent opinion, “Relieving Highway 101 traffic should be a priority.” As the Regional Transportation Planning Agency in San Luis Obispo County, SLOCOG continues to identify and fund needed improvements to Highway 101 in Pismo Beach, the South County and the region.

California is one of only two states in the nation that have not comprehensively regulated their groundwater.

About half of the recommendations suggested by last year’s San Luis Obispo County civil grand jury were carried out by the various government agencies that jurors had studied.

Editor's note: This is the first installment in a five-part series. Coming Monday: How the falling groundwater levels have affected four North County homeowners and businesses.

Authorities continued working Friday to identify the two bodies found inside a tent at the far end of a remote campground nestled among oak trees in Los Padres National Forest.

The Los Osos sewer project is experiencing several unexpected cost increases, but the overall project remains within its $173 million budget.

The contractor building the new eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will get a $20 million bonus if the span opens &#0133 SANTA MARGARITA - The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Department says two decomposed bodies have been found in a tent in a campground in Los Padres National Forest.... The long-awaited effort to establish ... (more)

An 18-year-old North County resident was arrested this week in connection to three residential burglaries in Paso Robles.

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's deputies found two dead bodies Thursday in a tent at a Los Padres National Forest Campground east of Santa Margarita Lake.

With its wine grapes, relatively affordable housing and recovering labor market, San Luis Obispo County sits at the leading edge of the recovering in the Tri-Counties and statewide.

Fourteen people who allegedly tried to smuggle $1.3 million worth of marijuana in a panga boat found off Montaña de Oro State Park in May were arraigned Wednesday on four felony counts.

Two North Coast teens have been identified — but not yet arrested — as the culprits in last weekend's vandalism of a Los Osos church , according to a news release from the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office.

A Southern California city that won a recent case in which the state Supreme Court ruled local municipalities can ban medical marijuana dispensaries is taking its efforts one step further by going after delivery services.