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Parts of State Street in Downtown Santa Barbara has been closed to traffic since May 2020 to allow businesses to operate outdoors due to pandemic restrictions. With how successful it's been, the City Council is looking to extend the closure and possibly even make it permanent.

The petition asks the administration to allow faculty to choose the modality of their courses and require the use of N-95 and KN-95 masks on campus, among other things.

In today's KCBX News Update: COVID-19 case counts have reached a new height in SLO County, and Caltrans will do bridge work in Los Alamos next week.

Several counties throughout California, like Los Angeles, are reporting they have likely passed the peak of the Omicron wave. While Santa Barbara County Public health is reporting the same progress, SLO County Public Health officials say the virus is still surging throughout the area.

Community members can use the app to find the nearest location in SLO County to get naloxone, a medicine known to reverse opioid overdoses.

In September 2020, a hiker was rescued after sustaining major injuries from a 30-foot fall. Two similar accidents happened in 2019 of hikers falling 30 and 50 feet, and in 2016, one hiker became paralyzed from the waist down after falling nearly 30 feet around the top of Bishop Peak.

People around the world may soon be able to use their smartphones to test themselves for COVID-19 and flu thanks to a group of researchers at UC Santa Barbara.

In today's KCBX News Update: the SLO County coronavirus surge seems to be easing, and the county announced $5.5 million in grant money available to local organizations.

Nearly 300 homes will be built along Tank Farm Road in San Luis Obispo, after the city approved a mixed-use development project at a Tuesday meeting.

In today's KCBX News Update: The defense team for Paul and Ruben Flores has requested a change of venue for the upcoming trial in the Kristin Smart case, and the Colorado Fire in Big Sur is now fully contained.