A 25-foot box truck is the site for sexual wellness and reproductive health care as it travels to the far reaches of San Luis Obispo County to assist homeless people and lower-income community members. Equipped with an exam room, a little laboratory, and an education and counseling space, the vehicle, dubbed Health Care on Wheels, is the Center for Health and Prevention's newest mobile clinic ..read more

Two years after the SLO County Board of Supervisors unrecognized the Oceano Advisory Council (OAC) due to claims of dysfunction, former members are taking jabs at Oceano's new advisory council. During a March 26 Board of Supervisors meeting, Oceano resident Lucia Casalinuovo said that the Vitality Advisory Council of Oceano's (VACO) new bylaws are appalling, discriminatory, and fail miserably at equal representation of the Oceano Community ..read more

Forty miles of fiber bearing broadband services is on the horizon for some neighborhoods in Oceano and Arroyo Grande—but not before a flurry of drones fly over the unincorporated areas to map them. From April 13 to 20, the drones will soar up to 3,000 feet overhead to capture data on poles and wires, roads, sidewalks, and curbs ..read more

The California Coastal Commission recently delayed deciding on whether SpaceX should be able to increase the number of rockets it launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base. SpaceX proposed expanding its Falcon 9 space program by increasing launch activities from six to 36 per year, with anticipation for an additional increase to 100 per year at a later time, according to the staff report ..read more

The San Luis Obispo County Clerk-Recorder's Office refused to pay an election recount requester $640 after a SLO Superior Court judge ruled to delete "extended hours" from the total cost of the manual count's efforts. "Ms. Stebbens did not file a timely claim or counter claim in small claims court and therefore we do not believe the clerk-recorder is legally obligated to refund Ms. Stebbens," Deputy County Counsel Ann Duggan told New Times on April 17 ..read more

For more than two decades, a well on Coast Union High School's property has produced water for the residents of Cambria—up to 20 percent of the town's water supply annually, according to the Cambria Community Services District (CSD ..read more

The U.S. Department of Education's new financial aid form has made applying for help more difficult for some potential college students locally and across the country. On Jan. 30, the "better FAFSA form" was introduced to simplify and redesign the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to ensure that 610,000 more students from low-income backgrounds receive federal Pell Grants ..read more

About 90 percent of U.S. adults with serious mental illness, such as schizophrenia, anxiety, and major depression, are unemployed, according to a Rutgers study from 2020. "A lot of times, because of anxiety and depression, the idea of even applying for a job is so daunting," Transitions-Mental Health Association (TMHA) Community Engagement Director Michael Kaplan said ..read more

The Central Coast Blue project is one agency down after Arroyo Grande City Council members voted unanimously to back out of the three-city cost-sharing agreement on April 9. The project—which aims to inject treated wastewater into the Santa Maria Valley Groundwater Basin as a drought buffer—was supposed to provide water to the cities of Pismo Beach, Grover Beach, and Arroyo Grande ..read more

Before the end of April, the controversial Dana Reserve project and local residents should have an answer from the SLO County Board of Supervisors. On April 23 and 24, the proposed Nipomo development will have its days in front of supervisors, six months after the county Planning Commission recommended approval of the project ..read more