Tag: Morro

What would happen if massive battery plant proposed in Morro Bay caught fire?

A large fire at the proposed battery plant in Morro Bay would not endanger public health, according to a safety report commissioned by Vistra Corp., the Texas-based company that proposed the project. The battery storage project, which Vistra hopes to build on the retired Morro Bay Power Plant property, would either house lithium ion batteries […]

SLO County man dies in crash on Highway 1 near Morro Bay

A Morro Bay man was killed Friday evening in a crash on Highway 1, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release on Saturday. Just before 8 p.m., the 43-year-old man was driving his 2006 Toyota at about 65 mph southbound on the highway north of South Bay Boulevard when the vehicle left the […]