By SPENCER COLE
Officers with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested more than a dozen undocumented Santa Maria residents over the course of a three-day sweep beginning on Sunday,...
By Kasey Bubnash
Dozens of community members talked housing and farming needs at the city's first of five forums regarding H-2A on June 14.
The forums, which will be hosted by various city an...
By Spencer Cole
California's Water Resources Control Board recently issued a web-based map that it says can be used as a tool to show which public schools in California have had their drinkin...
By Kasey Bubnash
Lifelong Santa Maria resident Gloria Soto planned to announce her candidacy for the Santa Maria City Council District 3 seat at noon in the Minami Community Center on June 21....
By SPENCER COLE
The public has a little more than 30 days to comment on a report released by the engineering firm Luhdorff and Scalmanini detailing hydrologic conditions for the Santa Maria V...
By Kasey Bubnash
When Greg Shearer was finally called in to see his doctor at the San Luis Obispo Community Based Outpatient Clinic in 2006, he noticed she seemed distraught.
The health...
• After President Donald Trump placed the fault for his administration's policy of separating children from parents seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border on Democrats,...
By Spencer Cole
On June 14, Santa Maria public information officer Mark van de Kamp sent out an email explaining that some city departments would begin closing every Friday starting on June 2...
By JOE ARMENDARIZ
Collectively, countywide, for the fiscal year 2018 (July through June), taxpayers will spend nearly $2 billion on programs and services delivered by local governments. The lar...
By Seth Steiner - Los Alamos
My graduate studies were in water and air pollution. I'm on the advisory committee of a nearby Groundwater Sustainability Agency, but I am writing this on my own today and am...
By Kasey Bubnash
Just two weeks after earning an associate degree, former Allan Hancock College baseball player Quinntin Perez signed a letter of intent to continue his college career at the...
By Kasey Bubnash
It's been more than a year since Santa Maria first sanctioned off portions of Buena Vista Park for a much needed $1.3 million rebuilding project that was first proposed in Oct...
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Everybody has a breaking point, when they just can't take it anymore. But what does it take to get you to there?
I know there are many who live on the Central Coast and pic...
By REBECCA ROSE
Even though photographer and writer Robbie Kaye has only lived in Santa Ynez for five years, she feels a lifelong connection to the landscape surrounding her.
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By REBECCA ROSE
To talk about art with painter Nancy Davidson is to talk about the Santa Ynez Valley and her lifelong love affair with its people and culture.
"It's just so beautiful he...
By REBECCA ROSE
The Rose Compass artists group will hold a panel discussion from 3 to 4 p.m. on July 8, which is the final day of The River's Journey exhibition at the Wildling Museum of Art ...
By REBECCA ROSE
The 2019 NatureTrack Film Festival in Los Olivos is now accepting long and short film submissions in both live and animated form in the categories of Adventure, Animatio...
By ROB KRIDER
What is the definition of the word "difficult"? Difficult is a 14-year-old boy trying to stand still for five minutes. Not only is it quite difficult for any boy t...
By Joe Payne
Every generation gets to rediscover the great bands and singers that are no longer with us. Whether it's the rock 'n' roll groups your parents listened to, or the iconic voice...
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Editor’s note: New Times Arts Editor Ryah Cooley and Sun Staff Writer Spencer Cole stepped in to write this week’s Split Screen while Glen and Anna Starkey were pa...
By Rebecca Rose
Old Town Orcutt is changing.
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It's sometimes hard to pin down exactly what the boutique area is changing into, but the signs of transformation somehow always linge...
The 66th annual Lompoc Valley Flower Festival opened June 20 and runs through June 24 at Ryon Park, located at 800 W. Ocean Ave., Lompoc. This festival features live entertain...
Fossemalle Dance Studios presents its 31st annual An Invitation to Dance recital on June 21 and 22 at 7 p.m. and June 23 at 6:30 p.m. at Jonata Middle School, located at 301 S...
The second annual Santa Maria Pride Celebration and Resource Fair takes place June 30 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Santa Maria Town Center West parking lot. This event featur...
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