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Santa Barbara’s short-term lodging tax comes in below budget for Fiscal Year 2024
The City of Santa Barbara announced that $3.3 million dollars has been collected from Transient Occupancy Taxes for June, the final month of the City's fiscal year. The post Santa Barbara’s short-term lodging tax comes in below budget for Fiscal Year 2024 appeared first on News Channel 3-12.
Jackpot! $10 million lottery Scratchers winner in Dublin
A lucky lottery Scratchers player in the East Bay is $10 million richer after buying a jackpot ticket recently while stopping at a gas station, according to the California Lottery. Janet Coppedge hit the top prize on a California 200X Scratchers ticket she bought at A&A Gas and Food Mart...
Hancock College beginning final push for students to register for upcoming fall semester
Registration for the upcoming fall semester at Allan Hancock College is continuing over the next few weeks with school officials encouraging students who are interested in taking classes now is the time to complete enrollment. The post Hancock College beginning final push for students to register for upcoming fall semester appeared first on News Channel 3-12.
Atascadero Concerts in the Park This Weekend, Erin & The Earthquakes 7.26.2024
The next Atascadero summer concert in the park will be tomorrow night starting at 6:30 pm at the Atascadero lake bandstand. Tomorrow’s entertainment will feature Erin & The Earthquakes. Erin & The Earthquakes perform dance, rock, funk & soul music. All concerts are free for the public to attend.
Almond Acres Charter Academy’s Wonderland Showing at Templeton PAC 7.26.2024
Almond Acres Charter Academy is proud to present Wonderland, an original adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, adapted and directed by Almond Acre’s Visual and Performing Arts lead, Amanda Thayer. Tickets can be found at the Templeton Performing Arts Center or Almond Acres Charter Academy websites. Proceeds...
Car accident leaves two Atascadero FFA teens unable to participate in fair auction
NORTH COUNTY — On Tuesday, July 23, at approximately 11:20 p.m., two local Atascadero teens were in a car accident, leaving them unable to participate in the California Mid-State Fair auctions with their animals. Fifteen-year-old Cameron (Cami) Hernandez and her 17-year-old boyfriend Aiden Herzig were driving home after a...
Amazon warehouse brings Oxnard extra $17M a year in sales tax, at other cities' expense
The Amazon building visible from Highway 101 in Oxnard has 2.3 million square feet of indoor space, the equivalent of 40 football fields. It can process about 2 million packages per week, most of them destined for homes and businesses in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. For most of those packages, the city of Oxnard gets a 1% cut of the sale, and the city where the item is delivered gets nothing at all....
California’s $20 minimum wage leads 89% of fast-food restaurants to reduce hours
The minimum wage for fast-food workers in California jumped to $20 an hour on April 1, a $4 pay bump for 553,000 fast workers. However, restaurant chain owners raised concerns that the minimum wage increases would hurt their bottom line, and owners have cut workers’ hours, raised food prices, and even shut down some locations. […]
Lawsuit claiming SLO detective was killed by ‘friendly fire’ thrown out. But it’s not over
The mother of the man who killed Det. Luca Benedetti is attempting to appeal the decision, claiming the Police Department racially profiled her and humiliated her and her family.
Four Mustangs Earn Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar Recognition
SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly men’s golfers Ben Quick, Austin Liu, Baron Szeto and Parker Mapes – 67 percent of the program’s eligible roster – received Division I Cobalt Golf All-America Scholar selection for the 2023-24 season Thursday morning. To receive All-America Scholar selection,...
Deputies arrest Nipomo man after hours-long standoff
– Deputies from the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Department responded to a disturbance report on July 24 at approximately 11:30 p.m. in the 100 block of South Avocado Avenue in Nipomo. Before their arrival, the suspect, identified as 36-year-old Bobby Heredia of Nipomo, vandalized a vehicle by breaking windows and damaging the body. He also threatened to kill the victim. The suspect fled the scene before deputies arrived.
Prop 32 asks California voters to raise statewide minimum wage to $18
Renato Palisoc has worked at the Hilton Bayfront in San Diego for 16 years. He said wages have gone up incrementally during that time, but the cost of living in California has increased exponentially. California's current $16 minimum wage is more than twice the federal minimum wage, which is $7.25....
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