Caltrans removed diseased trees and shrubs lining southbound Highway 1 between Yerba Buena and San Jacinto streets in Morro Bay, a move that has angered some who live along that mile-long stretch of road.

For San Luis Obispo County high school football coaches, last season’s entry into all-star game territory had to be like the proverbial fire hose shooting into their rookie players’ mouths at the start of every fall training camp.

Hospice du Rhône is leaving Paso Robles for Tennessee. The wine festival, which organizers say attracts about 1,200 people each April, originally started 20 years ago in Atlanta.

It started in 1979, when someone suggested to Ruth Scovell of Atascadero that she take her walnuts to the Saturday vegetable market in front of the Williams Bros. grocery store on Broad Street in San Luis Obispo.