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Cal Poly hosted its 82 annual Poly Royal Rodeo this past weekend. Reporter Natalie Levesque talks about the over two thousand students that attended.

The fourth and final day of the Rap festival kicked off at 1 p.m. and included 31 artists on the performance list with headliners Future and Metro Boomin. Reporter Izzy Romero shares more on how the festival wrapped up.

Cal Poly students and residents of San Luis Obispo have likely received a calendar for the 2024 year from PG&E with the title “Important Emergency Information.” The calendar is exclusive to San Luis Obispo County. 

Cal poly is home to hundreds of buildings with distinctive and sometimes unconventional designs. A hidden gem on campus has left students mystified for years. Reporter Jessica Carp dives deeper into the building 26 mystery.

Cal Poly’s VEX U robotics team, Gear Slingers, is qualified for this year’s international VEX U robotics competition happening from April 25 to May 3. 

The Cal Poly Cat Program hosted its first-ever St. Catty's Day celebration on March 13 on Dexter Lawn. Reporter Riley Sullivan has more on how the SLO Community supported the Cat Program at this event.

San Luis Obispo is home to a large community of surfers, including the entirely female surfing group Grrrls on Boards. The all-girl surf club was created in 2022 to support women within the male-dominated Central Coast scene. 

San Luis Obispo offers a handful of places where people can go to watch movies, but they aren't always easily accessible for students. One club invites the Cal Poly community to enjoy the magic of going to the movies from a classroom in the Agricultural Sciences Building.

At Her Table, a central coast organization dedicated to showcasing women-owned businesses in the food, beverage and lodging industry collaborated with local restaurants and entrepreneurs for a 10-day Women’s History Month festival.

Associated Students Incorporated (ASI) hosted its first-ever hobby horse competition, where students competed in different categories using prop horses. 

Cal Poly students receive haircuts from a Sacramento barber specializing in black hair care, in celebration of Black History Month. Reporter Jada Griffith has more.

Cal Poly students united with non-profit organization One Cool Earth to create their own garden in preparation for a new enrichment program opening in the fall. KCPR Reporter Mckenna Rodriguez explores what Garden Beautification Day consisted of.

Reporters Jazmyn Chavez and Izzy Romero highlight Post Malone's headlining at Rolling Loud in Hollywood. Chavez has more on the 28 different performers that took the stage on Saturday.

Reporters Izzy Romero and Jazmyn Chavez recap Nicki Minaj's performance as she headlined Rolling Loud 2024. Romero shares more about the audience's reaction and what's in store for the rest of the weekend.

KCPR Reporters Izzy Romero and Jazmyn Chavez explore what happened on Thursday evening of Rolling Loud 2024 and why audience members were upset after Kanye West's performance.

Over 20,000 Cal State student employees received an e-ballot in late January to participate in the Student Employee Sector of the California State University Employees Union (CSUEU). On February 23, the vote passed with 7,252 student assistants across the 23 CSU campuses voting online.

For the past few years, some Cal Poly students have been turning their preferred mode of transportation into a hobby.

Every week, at a coffee shop somewhere in San Luis Obispo, a group of France-loving locals meet to practice their French and get to know each other. 

Caroline Bennet about its weekly meetings.

Redshirt freshman Zeth Romney has made waves in the the collegiate wrestling world. Reporter Sergio Romero talks with Romney and his head coach about this year.

On Feb. 7, the Cal Poly Black Academic Excellence Center hosted its annual “State of Blackness” event to celebrate Black History Month and discuss the experiences of Black students on campus.

Several bands came together to perform at the Garage Rock Revival Concert, organized by local booking, promotion and artist collective, Channel Frequencies.

Reporter Layla Shuman has more on how Channel Frequencies brought local bands together and the impact on the San Luis Obispo music community.

Behind every San Luis Obispo tradition is a unique story that follows. Reporter Cole Pressler explains what happens at the first Thursday of every month in SLO.

The new Touch by Angels Cafe on Marsh Street offers Korean desserts and drinks not typically found in San Luis Obispo. Owner Young Won was inspired by the foods she ate growing up in Korea and wanted to bring that here. Won also runs a home for girls with disabilities, and between running both, she stays busy.

San Luis Obispo experienced two federally declared disaster level storms in Jan. 2023. Reporter Natalie Levesque has more on how the damages are being repaired this winter season.

New Year’s fitness resolutions swarm the Recreation Center at Cal Poly with the start of winter quarter. Reporters Natalie Levesque and Riley Sullivan take a look at how this affects students' fitness plans.

The newly renovated ASI Craft Center is now open for students, faculty and staff. The center closed for renovations in June of last year and opened back up on Jan. 22. 

In celebration of Cal Poly Safer's stalking action awareness month, the organization partnered with Athletes for a Safer Campus for their third annual night relay.

Local wine maker in San Luis Obispo illustrates harvest season through sound. Reporter Aidan Dillon sits down with Brook Munro to learn more about his creative process.

Supporters of the California Faculty Association marched at three different entrances on Cal Poly's campus on Jan. 22, reporter Izzy Romero takes a deeper dive into what this looked like.

The family of Kristin Smart is accusing Cal Poly of negligence relating to Smart’s death, according to documents filed to the San Luis Obispo County Superior Court on Thursday.

The Smart family is suing the university for negligence, negligent infliction of emotional distress and wrongful death, according to the lawsuit. 

Since last summer's shortage, college students are still struggling to get their ADHD medication. Reporter Sarina Grossi has more information on how this is affecting the San Luis Obispo community.

The sounds of diesel buses in San Luis Obispo may soon be a thing of the past. In August, the city of San Luis Obispo celebrated the addition of two all-electric buses to the SLO Transit fleet and announced its plan to introduce six more.

With the holidays coming up, student employees at the Cal Poly Creamery work to prepare and ship out their annual holiday cheese boxes.

Though this year’s holiday cheese box sales have ended, Cal Poly cheese can be found at Market Poly Canyon, California Fresh Market and a few other local grocery stores. 

Cal Poly has a new culinary and sensory lab in the William and Linda Frost Center for Research and Innovation. Reporter Natalie Levesque learns more about what it has to offer.

For over a decade, Cheap Thrills Records and Captain Nemo’s Toys and Games have offered a twenty-four hour game room. The combined business shares one large store in downtown San Luis Obispo on Higuera St. 

Located on a historic estate in San Simeon, Hearst Castle is a well-known destination on the central coast. Each year, the castle’s seasonal Holiday Twilight Tour gives guests a chance to see the castle lit up with lights, Christmas trees and other decor at night. 

What first started as a senior project is now a comprehensive and ever-evolving sex education Canvas course that students can anonymously self-enroll in at any time. 

Oceano’s Deltina Coffee Roasters officially opened their second location on Taft Street in San Luis Obispo. The store replaced the now shut down Kin Coffee Bar that was previously at that location. 

In the last month, Quickie Delivery Service has received several warnings from the Cal Poly Police Department (CPPD) about using electric scooters on campus.

Prove Labs is a student-run organization on Cal Poly’s campus and the club is working to break the world record for most miles driven on one charge. The car will be powered by a battery pack comprising over 7 thousand lithium-ion cells.

Bridge USA, a new club on campus, is working to bridge the partisan gap on college campuses to make a better democracy for the future.

Pismo clams were a staple of recreational fisheries for decades, but their population declined by the 1980s. The last clam of legal fishing size of four and a half inches was found in 1993, but since 2015, the Ruttenberg Lab at Cal Poly has been able to witness a rise in the clams’ population.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is suing the SLO location of Meathead Movers Inc., the largest independent moving company in California, for violating discrimination law.

Cal Poly students compete in a furniture design competition for a chance to attend the world’s largest trade fair in Italy

Cal Poly’s Performing Arts Center on Oct. 14 hosted Max McClean’s performance of mystical music, the sound of a large crash and imagery of the solar system.

The Cal Poly Center for Coastal Marine Sciences hosted an open house at the Cal Poly pier on Oct. 28.