The city of San Luis Obispo is preparing to deal with two potential sites of public nuisance left vacant for almost a decade ..read more

Dysfunctional meetings could be a thing of the past for the Oceano Community Services District (OCSD) as a newly hired general manager looks to turn things around for the divided board. Starting June 10, Peter J. Brown will join the Oceano community, leaving his current position as public works director for the city of Belmont in Northern California ..read more

Unlike Rome, Habitat for Humanity San Luis Obispo County and Templeton Glass built their joint playhouse for underserved families in a day. Even though Templeton Glass assembled the beach hut-themed playhouse over six hours at its Paso Robles location on May 23, it took months of planning to get to the quick-build stage ..read more

An almost two-year battle between Arroyo Grande and future resident Michael Harris over drilling a domestic water well on his property came to an end after the City Council ignored staff's advice to deny it. Since October 2022, city staff has recommended that the council deny Harris a well permit because it was both feasible and practical for Harris to connect to the city water system, with Reservoir No. 5 50 feet away from his 55-acre parcel, according to a staff report ..read more

A San Luis Obispo County Superior Court judge recently issued a tentative ruling requiring real estate and land use attorney John Belsher and his co-partner of the controversial development company PB Companies, disgraced former executive Ryan Wright, to pay millions of dollars to two clients for allegedly breaching fiduciary duty and fraud. Those two clients are Jeffrey Chase and Debora Chase ..read more

Certain foster care services are on the chopping block as California faces an ominous $68 billion deficit in 2024-25 and the governor looks for places to save money. Some of those proposed cuts include at least three child welfare programs that serve foster youth, including the Housing Navigators Program under the Department of Housing and Community Development ..read more

The Pismo Beach City Council will submit a $5 million grant application to help People's Self-Help Housing make upgrades to an apartment complex the nonprofit was recently sued over ..read more

UC Riverside professor Jinyong Liu embarked on a scientific challenge as an undergraduate chemistry student when he heard people dub per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) as "forever chemicals." "I just have very strong interest in destroying these chemicals," the associate professor of chemical and environmental engineering told New Times ..read more

After moving to San Luis Obispo 12 years ago from the Netherlands, Maartje Lawrence decided to turn her love for dance into a studio so she can share that passion with the youth around her. "I have this love for movement and art and connection, and I feel like a lot of those things go together in dance because you have to work together as a team and as a group ..read more

The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors became the 34th in California to opt out of a Ballot Disclose Act requirement. Joining a majority of its fellow 57 counties, SLO County will not be listing the supporters and opponents for county, city, district, and school measures on future election ballots ..read more