Ian Parkinson

One-third of San Luis Obispo County jail inmates have mental illness, and half the jail population is either homeless or doesn’t have stable housing on…

San Luis Obispo County Sheriff Ian Parkinson asked county officials this summer for an additional $3.55 million dollars in general fund money to cover…

Law enforcement officials say they have solved a pair of 41-year-old San Luis Obispo County cold cases by identifying a suspect in two Atascadero murders…

As part of our coverage of the June 5 primary election, KCBX News invited some local candidates to the studio to learn more about their visions,…

It was standing room only at Wednesday night’s candidate forum for the public office of San Luis Obispo County Sheriff. Every seat in board chambers at…

San Luis Obispo County announced this week it will pay $5 million dollars to the parents of a 36-year-old man who died while in the custody at the county…

Thursday marked the twenty-first anniversary of the disappearance of Cal Poly student Kristin Smart. Smart, who was a freshman at the time, went missing…

A 60-year-old inmate at the San Luis Obispo County Jail died in the early morning hours Thursday. It’s the second irregular inmate death since the start…

UPDATE: September 9, 2016 at 3:53 p.m.Items of interest found at multiple Cal Poly dig sites were being studied by investigators looking into the…