San Luis Obispo County supervisors may modify vacation rental rules in Cayucos and Cambria and make the regulations also effective in Los Osos and Avila Beach at their meeting Tuesday.

A Los Osos resident was arrested after the San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s narcotics unit found cocaine packaged for sale at the Taco Temple restaurant in Morro Bay.

A two-county motorcycle chase that began in Santa Maria and reached 100 miles per hour ended in the Atascadero Library parking lot Wednesday night with the arrest of the motorcyclist and his passenger.

Investigators say a trucker was high on drugs when his big-rig rear-ended a BMW, leaving a family trapped in a car teetering on a California freeway bridge.

A Cal Poly student from Arroyo Grande beat out students from Harvard University and Loyola University Chicago to advance to the semifinals of the “Jeopardy!” College Championship.

Arroyo Grande High football star Seth Jacobs announced tonight that he will play collegiately at Oklahoma State.

A burglary at Skate Warehouse is being investigated by the San Luis Obispo Police Department. A large amount of skate shoes was stolen, investigators say; an organized crime group from Southern California is believed to be involved.

As expected, Arroyo Grande High football stars Brent VanderVeen, Garrett Owens and Garrett Weinreich all signed National Letters of Intent today to play collegiately at Oregon State.

The Pismo Beach City Council may soon begin a search for a new city manager.

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. can start charging its customers fees of up to $10 per month if they don't want to have wireless "smart meters" installed in their homes, according to a decision Wednesday by California regulators.

Douglas Ray Flaata, 56, of California Valley, who was accused of beating his 74-year-old former girlfriend, was sentenced to seven years in state prison this week, according to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office.

Drivers heading north on Highway 101 through Pismo Beach on Thursday morning can expect alternative moving lane closures from 9 a.m. to noon, according to Caltrans.

Misdemeanor charges against William Roger McBurney, an employee at All That Glitters jewelry store in San Luis Obispo, have been dropped, according to his lawyer. But he still faces two felony counts of receiving stolen property.

Highway 1 at the south end of Big Sur reopened to through traffic at about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, nine days after a slide blocked the road Jan. 22. The rock slide site is about 48 miles north of Cambria.

Santa Maria police Officer Alberto Covarrubias Jr. was shot and killed early Saturday at the end of his shift working a DUI checkpoint. The shooter was his best friend on the force and best man at his wedding just three weeks earlier.

The state Assembly has passed legislation that would ask voters to revise California's Three Strikes law as a way to reduce prison sentences and save money.

Fire crews responded to a report of smoke at coffee house Kreuzberg, CA. The intersection of Broad and Higuera streets has been reopened.

Cal Poly freshman Weston Mangin, from Arroyo Grande, will appear on “Jeopardy!” He is among 15 college students competing for more than $250,000 in prize money. The College Championship episodes air at 7 p.m. Wednesday through Feb. 14 on NBC.

The Los Osos Community Services District board of directors will hold a special meeting tonight to accept the resignation of General Manager Dan Gilmore.

CHP and Cal Fire officials have responded to a report of a vehicle crash on Highway 46, near the summit of the route from Paso Robles to the coast and about four miles east of Old Creek Road.