By Peter Johnson
As San Luis Obispo County ramps up enforcement against illegal cannabis grows in the area, officials say they are investigating what appears to be a large, unlicensed cannabis...
By Kasey Bubnash
Shovels in hand, students donning corduroy Future Farmers of America jackets and hard hats giggled as they simultaneously dug into the freshly graded ground and tossed dirt in...
By Spencer Cole
As much of California burns in the middle of a particularly bad fire season, one bill penned by a Central Coast state senator is making its way through the Assembly. Sen. Han...
By Spencer Cole
The Santa Maria City Council responded to a Santa Barbara Barbara County grand jury report on Aug. 7. The city's answer included two recommendations, which Santa Maria officia...
By Spencer Cole
Santa Barbara County has one of the highest poverty rates in California. A new report recently released by the nonprofit think tank Public Policy Institute of California shows...
In the Sun's annual Best Of readers poll issue out on Aug. 2, the address of Tips and Toes, which won Best Nail Salon, was stated incorrectly. Tips and Toes is located at 104...
By Joe Payne
The Sun's Aug. 2 issue, the annual Best Of readers poll, including a brief that sourced information from an incorrect website. The following brief for the winner of Best...
• Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) criticized the Trump administration's announcement that it would remove the Obama-era policy of fuel emissions standards for car m...
By Spencer Cole
Central Coast residents and visitors have a new place where they can "escape" from the real world. The Ultimate Escape Rooms, a Ventura-based company, plans to open ...
By KEN MCCALIP
In every local community in America it is apparent that the lies and misdeeds of Washington's La-La Land impact our nation's standing and tarnish our country's reputation and ...
By Diane Martin - Santa Maria
You Canary says: "It must be nice to be able to own a house or a piece of farmland, to rake in the stacks of rental or ag income from the county's working class," (&...
By Ken Hansche - Santa Maria
There is fear throughout this land. Fear of truth. Fear of offending. Fear of being different. Fear of responsibility. Fear of being natural, normal.
It is sad. Think about i...
By Kasey Bubnash
She's not the first in her family to love horses, but incoming Santa Ynez High School sophomore Elizabeth Enderle shows them like no one else can.
Elizabeth, 15, has ...
By Kasey Bubnash
Just months after enduring what she called her "worst" experience in 25 years of teaching and education, which led to her recent resignation from a local junior high...
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I'm getting really weary of hearing the same tired, and frankly lazy talking points being regurgitated again and again, especially regarding problems that have only gotten w...
By Rebecca Rose
As part of the winery's Second Saturday poetry night, CORE Winery in Orcutt presents a reading from Susan Terence on Aug. 11.
Terence's poems have been published in journals ...
By Rebecca Rose
The Santa Maria Civic Theatre is holding auditions for an upcoming production of the musical comedy Little Shop of Horrors.
The show will be the second production of the grou...
By Rebecca Rose
The Dunes Center in Guadalupe will host a nature hike to Mussel Rock on Aug. 18.
The park, which lies to the south of Guadalupe, includes 550-foot-high dunes along the Sant...
By Rebecca Rose
Carol Simon admits she has a very patient husband.
The artist, whose work currently can be seen at Gallery Los Olivos in a one-woman show running through Aug. 31, laughs when...
By Rebecca Rose
In 1999, I was living in Indiana and working as a part-time photographer. I had a car with a five-CD changer and I thought it was the most technologically advanced piece of eq...
By Joe Payne
The Russian-born pop singer/songwriter Marina Verenikina, who goes by Marina V, has wowed audiences and critics across the U.S., Europe, and her home country with her starling...
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Co-writer and director Susanna Fogel (Life Partners, Chasing Life TV series) helms this action-comedy spy spoof about 30-year-old besties Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate ...
By Rebecca Rose
The sun is barely beginning to descend from the sky, leaving us with a blanket of warmth as a cool breeze comes up from the east. The music coming from inside the small two-st...
The Pacific Conservatory Theatre PCPA presents Mamma Mia!, a musical comedy featuring songs by ABBA, through Aug. 26 at the Solvang Festival Theater. Performances take place T...
Family Day in the Park, also known as Healthy Kids Day, takes place Aug. 19 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Waller Park. Guests can enjoy carnival games, various vendors, and live e...
The Lompoc Valley Art Association presents Joy, a new exhibit showcasing works by artist Tonya Romano Schultz, through Aug. 31 at the Cypress Gallery, located at 119 E. Cypres...
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