Gabriela Fernandez
News DirectorGabriela Fernandez came to KCBX in May of 2022 as a general assignment reporter, and became news director in December of 2023. She graduated from Sacramento State with a BA in Political Science. During her senior year, she interned at CapRadio in their podcast department, and later worked for them as an associate producer on the TahoeLand podcast. When she's not writing or editing news stories, she loves to travel, play tennis and take her 140-lbs dog, Atlas, on long walks by the coast.
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New safety requirements could be coming to property owners along the Isla Vista Bluffs. The proposed regulations are in response to the many student renters who have fallen off the cliffs and suffered death or injury.
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Police continue to investigate a pro-Palestinian protest at UC Santa Barbara that disrupted finals week.
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Two local groups have sued San Luis Obispo County over a controversial housing project that will be built in Nipomo.
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A preliminary $70 million class action settlement over the 2015 Refugio oil spill would require the pipeline owners to pay more than 90 affected property owners.
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California has begun its annual ban on sport harvesting mussels. The order is issued to prevent people from sickness or death.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied a lawsuit against the US Department of Energy that claimed the federal government failed to update safety standards at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
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The City of Arroyo Grande has backed out of a wastewater treatment center that was expected to insulate the five-cities area in San Luis Obispo County from future drought. The project is called Central Coast Blue.
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Kenneth Taylor, a Cal Poly SLO student, died earlier this week in Big Sur. An autopsy report Wednesday confirmed the death was accidental, caused by multiple blunt force injuries.
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A Santa Maria activist is banding together local youth to inform fieldworkers and their children about their rights. As the son of farmworkers himself, he says it's personal.
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An evacuation warning was issued to people in the Big Sur area, ahead of the forecasted heavy rain and thunderstorms. The warning stretches from north of Dolan Slide to Rocky Creek Slip.