Families struggling with homelessness will soon have a new place to go in Atascadero as the El Camino Homeless Organization (ECHO) broke ground on the Balay Ko Family Resource Center on Oct. 9. The ...

Pilgrimage to jazz Mecca: 49th year of festival hits SLO and Northern Santa Barbara counties. Plus: Bay to the Beach hosts E-40, Too Short, Warren G, P-LO, LaRussell, Mistah F.A.B., and Gehrig Kniffen ...

As elected trustees of the San Luis Coastal Unified School District, we are responsible for guiding and overseeing the professionals who run our schools in San Luis Obispo, Los Osos, and Morro Bay. It ...

Two local winemakers are helping to catapult the Central Coast’s stellar cool-climate pinot noir and chardonnay into the global spotlight.

From Claude Monet’s transportive water lilies series to J.W.M. Turner’s dramatic marine paintings to David Hockey’s colorful LA swimming pools, artists have always been attracted to the challenge of ...

The California Coastal Commission, which often doesn’t permit shoreline armoring for private properties along the coast, recently approved brand new seawalls for structures in Pismo Beach and Cayucos.

If you love classical dance or were in any way connected to the Central Coast dance community as a patron, artist, student, or teacher, you knew of Gilbert and Sydna Reed, who passed away earlier this ...

Embracing their rural characteristics, the San Miguel and Shandon school districts are the only ones in San Luis Obispo County that enjoy a campus-based wheat mill. “We were the first district in ...

The three environmental groups’ Oct. 9 opinion piece in New Times, “The Lopez solution,” is an expression of hopeful fallacy with misinformation to justify a far-reaching, poorly thought-out legal ...

San Luis Obispo County recently assumed control of the San Simeon Community Services District’s day-to-day operations to ensure that water and wastewater services continue for local residents. The ...

The Arroyo Grande City Council will soon scrutinize changes to the city’s municipal code thanks to a series of housing bills signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom. During the Oct. 14 meeting, council ...

The board withdrew plans to censure board member Rod Smiley after threatened legal action could have cost more than $100,000.