Halloween

With tiny hands or big paws, animals at Atascadero’s Charles Paddock Zoo scooped tasty treats from carved-out pumpkins Wednesday during a Halloween event.

Monsters get a bad rap. Sure, that swamp creature may have stolen your girlfriend, but he did it out of love. That masked serial killer may have nearly caught you, but his attack showed you the error of your lax home-security ways. And while no one likes being mind-controlled by an alien invader, isn’t it worth discovering a new culture in an unexpected way?

At the La Familia ranch on Los Osos Valley Road.

Homemade Halloween costumes are cheap, easy and eco-friendly, since they often feature recycled clothes, props and accessories. Plus, most of the materials for the perfect costume can be found around the house or at your local thrift store. Here are eight ideas ...

No matter if the evidence was just a hunch or an actual sighting, the ghostly remnants of times past linger in San Luis Obispo County. Creaking steps, unexplainable coincidences and truly bizarre happenings have made believers out of skeptics.