Currently, the walking and biking trail starts in Avila Beach at Ontario Road and stretches down to the coast. The county’s plan is to build out the path, so it will extend from San Luis Obispo to the ocean.

Sergeant Joshua Walsh said his department didn’t find evidence that the man committed a hate crime, because his actions weren’t directed at a person who is part of a protected class.

Santa Maria residents learned about housing rights, eviction procedures and new state housing laws during a virtual workshop Wednesday. The city partnered with the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara County for the event.

The move came after a recent controversy over the store Goodland Guns moving to a new location near a daycare, sparking concerns over safety.

California says San Luis Obispo County must plan to build more than 14,000 homes over the next decade. But, in Grover Beach, a push to limit building heights has raised questions about where those homes should go.

The Supreme Court will likely weigh in on the Trump administration’s plan to limit mail-in voting soon, but for now, a SLO County election official is encouraging voters to use county ballot drop boxes instead.

President Donald Trump is expanding the Interior Department’s authority over energy projects under the Defense Production Act. The order could affect the Central Coast where the administration has already invoked the federal law to support a pipeline restart off the Santa Barbara coast.

The senators also warn that the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Wildland Fire Service don’t have enough staff to sustain operations.

With less than two months before the midterm election, the Supreme Court will have to decide whether to allow the USPS to change rules around mailing ballots.

New research has found that El Niño events, a warming pattern in the Pacific Ocean that leads to wetter winters for California’s Central Coast, have become more and more intense since the Industrial Revolution.