By Kasey Bubnash
Just inside the Santa Maria branch of the Santa Barbara County Foodbank's open garage door sat two massive crates, one holding 30 bags of non-perishable food products, the oth...
By Chris McGuinness
The Santa Barbara County Jail reported its first inmate death of 2019, after a 52-year-old died of an undisclosed medical condition.
Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office off...
By Kasey Bubnash
The 2017-18 Congressional session came and went, and during those two years, a House resolution that would have affirmed Camp 4's fee-to-trust status with the federal governme...
By Chris McGuinness
A planned commercial cannabis dispensary is one step closer to opening its doors in the city of Lompoc.
On Jan. 11, the city issued its very first certificate of occupancy fo...
By Kasey Bubnash
Picking fruits and vegetables on a farm is hard work, and so is raising five children as a single parent. Reina Mendoza has been doing both for more than a decade.
Mend...
By Nick Powell
Concerned citizens crowded Lompoc City Hall on Jan. 8, when the City Council held a special meeting to fill a vacant seat on its dais. After a half hour of wrangling over the ...
• U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) announced on Jan. 11 that he requested that the chief administrative officer of the House of Representatives withhold his pay...
By Caleb Wiseblood
Rebecca Picek's history with Girl Scouts stretches back further than the existence of the branch she's currently a part of. Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast (GSCCC) w...
By Ron Fink - Lompoc
Last Tuesday evening a remarkable event occurred during the Lompoc City Council meeting; the goal was to pare down a list of 10 applicants for a vacant council seat, and they ...
By Jose Luis Castellanos - Santa Maria
At the Republican National Convention in 2016, Donald J. Trump claimed the nation was in crisis. Trump told the American people "I alone can fix it." He pledged to r...
By Alan Eft - Orcutt
A proactive plan of action to protect our country from others crossing the borders illegally is crucial for the safety of Americans, and our economy.
Our current policy of pr...
By Libby Breen - Orcutt
It's taken two years for the media, Donald Trump voters, and the world to understand what a madman inhabits the White House. We, who saw him as harmful to our democracy from e...
By Rachel Altman - Santa Barbara
In the Santa Maria Times and Lompoc Record on Dec. 16 ("Aera Energy taps Cat Canyon project's environmental stewardship"), Aera's PR representative claims that development of...
By Seth Steiner - Los Alamos
A UCSB-affiliated study purportedly estimates the economic impact on our county of Aera's proposed oil project in Cat Canyon, between Santa Maria and Los Alamos. The study wa...
By Kasey Bubnash
She may be young, but 7-year-old Zoe De La Cruz is already showing a lot of promise in the world of gymnastics.
It's only her third year training at KT's All-Star Gym...
By Kasey Bubnash
Early childhood care isn't cheap.
In Santa Barbara County, parents spend an average of about $1,000 on infant care and $800 on preschool services each month, according ...
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What do the Santa Ynez Valley Band of Chumash Indians have in common with President Donald T-Rump? People like to file lawsuits against them!
That's pretty much where...
By Rebecca Rose
The Elverhoj Museum of History and art will host four children's authors from the Central Coast in a special event on Jan. 16
Authors include Patricia Eubank reading Natalia'...
By Rebecca Rose
The Pacific Conservatory Theatre's (PCPA) next production Shakespeare in Love will run from Feb. 7 through March 3.
The play is a romantic comedy based on the movie w...
By Rebecca Rose
The Wilding Museum of Art and Nature will feature the work of painter Ray Strong from Feb. 2 through July 18.
Strong, who died in 2006, was a prolific Santa Barbara artist wh...
By Rebecca Rose
Candy Chang didn't set out to create a memorial to her late friend Joan, who had been like a mother to her for 15 years before she died.
To deal with the loss, Chang set out ...
By Caleb Wiseblood
Anyone living south of Valencia should heed this piece of The Californians' advice at least once in their life: "Go up the 5, go to Magic Mountain, get on Riddler's Rev...
By CAMILLIA LANHAM
Brazilian-American duo the Complicated Animals is touching down at Presqu'ile Winery for the first 3rd Fridays Live performance of the year on Friday, Jan. 18, from 4:30 to 7 ...
Mimi Leder (Pay It Forward) directs this biopic about a young Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) and her fight for equality, which eventually helps propel her onto the Supre...
By Rebecca Rose
You may know Los Olivos as a quiet nook where some of the region's best wine tasting rooms are, but there's another thing about it you may not know. It's also the perfect spot...
Fantastic Fungi, a mushroom variety presentation and exploration walk with fungi expert Bob Cummings (pictured), takes place Jan. 20 from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Arroyo Hond...
Cabaret 805 hosts a weekly musical theater workshop series on most Mondays, with few exceptions, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Santa Maria Civic Theatre, located at 1660 N. McClel...
Queen Elsa from Frozen will be visiting the Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum on Jan. 19 from 11 a.m. to noon. One of the museum’s special Saturday Science Experiments wil...
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