Locals weigh in on Proposition 50, California’s attempt to redraw congressional districtsOctober 30, 2025The New Times Staff ...

Find some peace by checking out the winners of our third annual pet photo contest. They’re cute! Really cute. Readers from San Luis Obispo and northern Santa Barbara counties submitted hundreds of ...

The Los Osos Community Services District isn’t making enough tax revenue to fully fund its fire services for the first time ...

America lost two very different figures this September. Bobby Cain, little known outside his small county in Tennessee, died quietly at 85. Charlie Kirk, a nationally recognized conservative activist, ...

When Emily Everett-Nelson arrived at a Lake Elsinore animal shelter expecting to walk dogs in 2018, she was shown a list of animals scheduled to be euthanized that day. “They were like, ‘OK, these are ...

In May 2017, the California Coastal Commission mandated that the SLO South County Waste Water Treatment plant in Oceano begin planning for a possible relocation by May 2047 due to legitimate concerns ...

The mystique of the Old West will be on full display this weekend with the return of SLOPOKE, an art exhibition celebrating the American West in the Octagon Barn Event Center from Friday, Oct. 31, at ...

WAITING FOR SERVICE Facing complaints of long wait times, San Luis Ambulance said that response times—which can range between less than 10 minutes to around 80, depending on location—are set by the ...

I received a new majority (Trump Republican) mailer on Oct. 23. It provided a very brief background on Proposition 50. Then, it refers the reader to the Protect Your Vote 2025 website, which is a ...

Oct. 18 was No Kings Day, and a chant reverberated throughout America as 7 million protesters marched in 2,700 cities and towns all across the country—including San Luis Obispo: “Tell me what ...

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During a press conference, on Oct. 22, Gov. Gavin Newsom stated that the media, people, and organizations that wield power and influence and do absolutely nothing when they know something is wrong, ...