By JOE PAYNE AND KASEY BUBNASH
Santa Barbara County Fire Chief Eric Peterson had some good news to share with the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors at its July 18 meeting—the Alamo Fire near S...
By CAMILLIA LANHAM
Drilling a non-agricultural water well in an area of Santa Barbara County that’s already served by a water district is about to become more burdensome thanks to what 1st...
By JOE PAYNE
Steve Lavagnino was set to announce his bid for re-election as 5th District county supervisor on July 19, aiming for a third term representing much of Santa Maria and unincorp...
By KASEY BUBNASH
Edgar Contreras-Argote of Guadalupe died early July 17 in a single-car rollover on Brown Road just outside Santa Maria.
The 22-year-old was pronounced dead at 6:26 a.m. when ...
By KASEY BUBNASH
When Jen Ellis told her children they wouldn’t be going home, they cried.
After a long Saturday spent preparing for 4-H competitions at the Santa Barbara County Fair in...
By HELEN ANN THOMAS
On my way to an agricultural awards event on the eve of the Santa Barbara County Fair, on Santa Maria Fairpark grounds, I passed by the Great American Petting Zoo. I had to ...
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) issued a statement on July 13 following the release of the updated Senate Republican health care bill, meant to “repeal and repla...
By CARMEN AGUILA-TORNERO
The Central Coast doesn’t always get a lot of rain during the winter, but it consistently sees warm, dry weather come summertime. For those who have a garden to tend to,...
By KASEY BUBNASH
Steve Del Real said he watched his students at the Center for Employment Training (CET) build miniature, almost fully working homes for years as a part of the hands-on learnin...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
It’s never too late to start over. This was Corina Yee’s mantra after losing her job at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Yee worked for the United Launch Alliance (ULA) ...
By PETE FLORES
In a recent interview with KSBY, Mr. Rick Haydon, city manager of Santa Maria, when speaking about the Mayor’s Task Force, stated that the people on the Mayor’s Ta...
By Susan K. Chapman - Santa Maria
On behalf of the residents living near the north side of the Alamo Fire, I wish to give my heartfelt thanks to all the firefighters on the ground and in the air who came from ...
By Samantha Romero - Santa Maria
My family and I were totally disgusted by Mr. Foote’s 55 Fiction article peppered with F-bombs (“Graciapapi,” July 6). It’s bad enough that people are ...
By Justin Ruhge - Concerned Taxpayers Inc., Lompoc
Even a Democrat thinks it is dumb.
Democrats are noted for raising taxes and spending wildly on social issues. But here even the speaker of the California Assembly, Democrat ...
By Andy Caldwell - Coalition of Labor, Agriculture, and Business
Having written nearly 2,000 opinion columns during my career, there is one particular subject that I have repeated over and over. It has to do with the dangers and implication...
By KRISTINA SEWELL
By definition, the word “zion” means paradise. If there is a paradise on this Earth, I think it exists in Zion National Park. Tucked into the southwest corner of U...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
Female rock climbers from around the globe, including Lompoc resident Courtney Tuskan, gathered at Owen’s River Gorge in Bishop, Calif., for the 2017 Flash Foxy Women&rs...
By CARMEN AGUILA-TORNERO
Allan Hancock College will offer two six-week business classes taught at the Vandenberg Air Force Base Education Center for fall semester.
The two classes, one for business...
By CARMEN AGUILA-TORNERO
Partners in Education welcomed Santa Barbara City College President Anthony E. Beebe as its new board president, County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido as board secret...
By CARMEN AGUILA-TORNERO
Cuyama graduates Jazmin Ojedas and Karen Mancilla were selected to participate in this year’s summer internship program provided by energy producers. Ojedas will be inte...
By CARMEN AGUILA-TORNERO
The Volunteen Scholarship Award recently gave $7,000 in scholarships to four local college-bound teens who volunteer at Marian Regional Medical Center.
The four locals served...
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Things sure have changed since I began fluttering around newsrooms, chasing down leads, and covering local news.
For one, I don’t actually have to go to a bunch of lo...
Why do you like going to Waller Park?
By REBECCA ROSE
Some of the images are hard to pinpoint at first. A speck of red stands out in a cluster of black matter. A broken branch stretches out into a stark sky. In another, a cluster...
By REBECCA ROSE
The Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) received a $10,000 Arts Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. PCPA was one of 133 organizations to receive funding from...
Guadalupe Buddhist Church welcomes the public to the annual Japanese Obon Festival. Members of the church hold the event to express gratitude and honor to their ancestors who ...
By ARIEL WATERMAN
Ah, summer! The time for frolic and fun in the sun. Best of all—no school! And if you’re a kid, that’s the best part of summer. Then there is the family va...
By JOE PAYNE
The Catholic Church looms large in the history of Western art music, and why shouldn't it? The church is responsible for written music notation, some of the earliest codified ...
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Director Michael Showalter (Hello, My Name is Doris) directs this semi-autographical screenplay by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani about a Pakistani stand-up comic named K...
By REBECCA ROSE
In 1993, when I was living in the great city of Chicago, I got off my stop on the L red line at Fullerton and realized there was nothing to eat in my tiny studio apartment (as...
Celebrate with the Guadalupe Buddhist Church’s annual Obon Festival with food, dancing, martial arts, taiko drumming, and arts and crafts on July 23 from 11:30 a.m.-6 p....
Hotel California: A Salute to the Eagles presents a showcase of the Eagles hits such “Heartache Tonight,” and “Hotel California” as well as newer relea...
The Solvang Parks and Recreation Department present a superhero-themed two-day camp featuring crafts, adventures, and games for children ages 3 to 8. Parents are invited last ...
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