Deputies arrested five individuals Thursday following the search of an Oceano home that was targeted as part of a narcotics investigation.
At about 9 a.m., San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s deputies and members of the Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit and Gang Task force Read More …
A fire broke out at a homeless camp near the Oceano Dunes Monday morning.
Shortly before 6 a.m., Five Cities firefighters found a blaze in the 300 block of Pier Avenue. Read More …
A traffic stop conducted Wednesday afternoon in Oceano netted 9 grams of methamphetamine and approximately 6.5 grams of heroin, as well as a loaded handgun, each of which were found inside the vehicle of a felon from Arroyo Grande, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office. Read More …
A home belonging to Oceano Community Services Director Lori Angelo caught fire early Friday morning.
The fire broke out at about 4 a.m. at the two-story home in the 1600 block of Laguna Drive, according to the Five Cities Fire Authority. Read More …
Five Oceano men are in jail after they snatched two victims from a Santa Maria night club Sunday with the intent to rape them, according to the Santa Maria Police Department. Read More …
A 20-year-old transient from Seattle is in jail after he allegedly set a confederate flag on fire in Oceano on Friday, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office.
The suspect ran away and managed to evade capture for a day. But deputies tracked him down and arrested him on multiple charges, including arson and a civil rights violation.
At about 6:20 p.m. Friday, Mitchell Joseph Davis allegedly set a confederate flag on fire in the parking lot of a restaurant at 649 Pier Avenue in Oceano. Read More …
A San Luis Obispo jury convicted an Oceano man on Thursday of second-degree murder over a violent assault that took place outside an Arroyo Grande bar in 2014.
On Oct. 2, 2014, Ignacio Franco Palomar III, 39, struck Gregory Arthur Rustigan, Read More …
An economic impact report prepared by a South Lake Tahoe-based consulting firm found that, between July 2016 and Sept. 2017, the Oceano Dunes District within California’s state parks system generated a total of $243 million for the San Luis Obispo County economy.
The study conducted by SMG Consulting found visitors to the Oceano Dunes area from outside of SLO County spent an estimated $158 million directly on travel expenditures, with $45 million being spent on accommodations. Read More …
After spending years and millions of dollars settling a case over a 2010 sewage spill, the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District received a new fine from the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.
The latest fine, which is for a series of water quality violations between July 2015 and May 2017, is much smaller, totaling $9,000. Read More …
OPINION by JULIE TACKER In 1984, the San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury recommended the South San Luis Obispo County Sanitation District add members to its three member board to allow Read More …