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The Cal Poly Plant Shop is getting into the holiday spirit with poinsettias at its annual student-led project and sale. Julia Stuffler takes inventory of the project’s poinsettia stock.

Poinsettias for sale at Cal Poly's plant shop

The Poly Plant Shop at Cal Poly has launched its annual poinsettia sale with 2,800 plants in more than 30 varieties and colors. The sale is scheduled to continue through mid December.

Sports

Cuesta College freshman Kaylee Williams is a former Mission Prep standout.

Cuesta women's basketball rolls into home opener undefeated

Cougars have gone undefeated, they’ve made it look easy and they’re beginning to earn respect across the state going into tonight’s home opener in the 30th Annual Phillips 66 Tournament against Hartnell at 8. 10 minutes ago

Business

A former car dealership on Monterey Street in San Luis Obispo is being transformed into the new headquarters of iFixit.

New iFixit headquarters under construction in SLO

Construction is well underway for the new “employee-friendly” headquarters of San Luis Obispo tech company, iFixit, but chief executive officer Kyle Wiens is staying tight-lipped about the Monterey Street project until it is closer to completion...

Opinion

Simone Viola volunteers to ring the bell for Salvation Army donations outside the Farrell Smyth office in the Village of Arroyo Grande.

Don’t shut out Salvation Army’s drive

Like Santa Claus and Christmas trees, the Salvation Army’s red kettles are a holiday tradition, as well as a powerful fundraising tool.

Entertainment

Jayde Forzetting as Grace Jackson and other cast members during a “Pool ’63” rehearsal.

Cuesta production dives into the deep end of racial issues

Set in the summer of 1963 in Birmingham, Ala., “Pool ’63” examines how the lives of two 9-year-old girls — one black, one white — are shaped by the civil rights movement.

Living

The Bagwell home features a mix of Western and wine country décor.

Tour Paso Robles homes decorated for Christmas

Becky Lewis is a home tour aficionado. She has been on more than 40 home and garden tours, driving as far as 250 miles to attend a particularly intriguing one. So when she was brainstorming fundraising ideas for her Relay For Life Pink Angels Team...

State

Wilma Huber is bundled up against the cold wind while shoveling outside her apartment Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Carson, N.D. as an arctic blast swept across the Northern Plains. Thursday’s projected high is minus-6, falling to minus-10 by Saturday, with overnight lows to 24 below as a major winter storm bulldozed from the Rockies eastward. The National Weather Service forecast a foot or more of snow in some areas of the Upper Midwest, with freezing rain possible for parts of the Great Lakes.

Shrugging off winter's bite in N. Dakota oilfields

Some people were choosing to stay indoors as an arctic blast swept across the Northern Plains, but the prospect of temperatures not cracking single digits had a different effect on the roustabouts, roughnecks and thousands of others working outside... 27 minutes ago

Nation/World

Iraq police storm mall, kill gunmen after standoff

Police in Iraq say they have stormed a mall in a northern city that gunmen used to attack a police station, killing three militants and ending a hourslong standoff. 17 minutes ago

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