Santa Maria Police Officer Dustin Rhoads looks for distracted drivers on Stowell Road on April 18, 2024. (Dave Alley/KEYT) SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Law enforcement agencies throughout the Central Coast are cracking down on distracted driving in April during a month long enforcement operation. The enforcement is part of the annual national Distracted Driving Awareness Month campaign that is held each year to help reduce the dangerous driving habit. Throughout April, agencies such as the Santa Maria Police Department, will be have officers on patrol who are actively looking for drivers in violatio ..read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. – Firefighters responded to a vehicle fire and an associated 20-foot by 20-foot vegetation fire near the 9000 block of Highway 58 east of Santa Margarita Thursday. According to the San Luis Obispo County Fire Department, the vegetation fire was extinguished around 12:38 p.m. Thursday and crews then were able to extinguish the vehicle fire around 1:40 p.m. The call for a car fire on Highway 58 near the border with Kern County and north of the Carrizo Plain National Monument came in around 12:18 p.m. details emergency tracking website PulsePoint. The post Fire cr ..read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – The San Luis Obispo Police Department is turning to the public for help in identifying two people allegedly involved in a theft at the Madonna Inn on Monday. According to the San Luis Obispo Police Department, the two people pictured are suspected in the theft of a purse, a wallet, and an iPhone from a customer on Apr. 16. The vehicle circled in the image below is believed to be associated with the two people and was provided in the public assistance request from the San Luis Obispo Police Department. If you have any information, please call Officer Bravo at 805-59 ..read more

ESPN +Cal Poly hits three home runs in a 9-3 win over Santa Clara SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. - The Cal Poly Mustangs (21-14, 11-4) flexed their muscles for the second game in a row, beating Santa Clara (18-16, 6-6 WCC) by a 9-3 margin with the help of three home runs for a total of seven over the last two days. The two foes played true to the antics of a midweek affair, combining to use 16 pitchers and 30 field players total. Six different Mustangs collected RBIs on the day with Dylan Kordic (3) leading the pack. Continuing from yesterday's flurry of moonshots, Jake Steels led off Cal Poly's fir ..read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – San Luis Obispo County Supervisors chose Matt Pontes as their new County Administrative Officer Tuesday. Pontes brings plenty of experience as a local Cal Poly graduate through his work with several agencies to combat wildfires and help ecosystems in California, Oregon and Washington. Pontes remains committed to helping the county in whatever way he can and found this new opportunity as a chance to give back to his local community. "It's imperative that we work together to address pressing issues such as homelessness, affordable housing, infrastructure improvement, a ..read more

PASO ROBLES, Calif. – The Paso Robles City Library has announced April's Artist of the Month is Olga Mihailicenko. Mihailicenko came to Paso Robles in August of 2022 as a refugee from her home in Sumy, Ukraine to stay with a local host family after leaving her home with a single carry-on bag and her love of art. Paso Robles now hosts the artist who has had her work exhibited in Italy and Ukraine and has sold her paintings to people from around the world. Mihaillicenko specializes in cityscapes in an abstract expressionist style and her work will be on display in the Paso Robles City Library t ..read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – The San Luis Obispo Police Department (SLO PD) provided an update Monday to a vandalism incident at Santa Rosa Park that occurred earlier this month. Parks maintenance workers found large circle marks that littered the grass baseball field with significant turf damage, according to a tweet from SLO PD on April 8. The SLO PD asked for community assistance in identifying the person responsible for the vandalization and a video was provided to officers recently. 1/2 Last week, we shared that the Santa Rosa Park softball field was vandalized and asked for the community ..read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. – Drone mapping that began last Saturday will continue until this Saturday due to San Luis Obispo County's broadband installation project in Oceano and Arroyo Grande. Drones will fly overhead across both areas at about 200-3,000 feet as crews will also conduct safety checks and take ground measurements. Work will happen daily with minimal sound disruptions between the hours of 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. Data collection for poles, wires, roads, sidewalks and curbs during this time will be for mapping purposes as the drone work will give a better timeline when complet ..read more

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. – PG&E will begin a major project this week to increase electric reliability. It will help customers and support several new projects that will require more electricity. PG&E crews will be installing a new distribution line to eliminate forecasted power line overloads. 69 total poles will be replaced on Broad Street and High Street and several new poles will also be added. The project is scheduled to end around November. The post PG&E electricity project kicks off in San Luis Obispo appeared first on News Channel 3-12 ..read more

CENTRAL COAST REGION, Calif. – On Saturday, President Biden approved a federal disaster declaration for all three counties along the Central Coast Region as part of the recovery from notable storms at the beginning of this year. The declaration unlocks public assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for state, local, and tribal governments in the impacted areas. "I am grateful to President Biden and his administration for recognizing the severity of the storms that the Central Coast faced this winter and approving our request for additional federal support," said Cent ..read more