By PETER JOHNSON
Greeted by a raucous San Luis Obispo Guild Hall crowd of more than 100 people, Dawn Addis opened her run for state Assembly on Nov. 7 like she did her political life in 2017 a...
By ZAC EZZONE
After numerous hearings, the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission recently approved two cannabis cultivation projects and denied one.
On Nov. 6, the commission discussed ...
By WILLIAM D'URSO
The Buellton Planning Commission approved an item on Nov. 7 allowing a new urgent care facility into town.
The proposal came from Cottage Health, a 125-year-old nonprofit wit...
By PETER JOHNSON
With a year to go in the 2020 election, 24th District Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) is off to a big financial head start against his Republican challenger, radio host ...
By WILLIAM D'URSO
Sears may be shutting the doors on its Santa Maria Town Center location in February 2020, but leaders of the city’s business community say retail is still going strong.
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By ZAC EZZONE
Following a year of nonstop conversations over cannabis cultivation, residents and stakeholders in Santa Barbara County will have a new marijuana-related topic to discuss in 2...
By WILLIAM D'URSO
The Santa Maria Joint Union High School District’s nameless new high school is nearing completion. It’s 72 percent of the way there, according to the school distri...
• State Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis Obispo) released a statement on Nov. 6 condemning Facebook’s refusal to respond to a subpoena California Attorn...
By William D'Urso
In a Lompoc strip mall next to a pizza shop and a vacant Chinese buffet is the Cosmoton Academy.
It’s a starting point for people who want careers in hair styles gear...
By Zac Ezzone
After a nearly nine-hour meeting on Oct. 30, the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission delayed making a decision on an appeal of a land use permit for a cannabis farm in Bu...
By Michael Donohue, Lompoc
Lompoc is facing a severe budgetary problem, and as a result, vital services like police protection are severely curtailed. So far, there have been seven murders in Lompoc, pe...
By Virginia Souza, Santa Maria
The national anniversary of women’s suffrage will be celebrated in August of 2020. Did you know that women in the state of California voted on state matters eight years ...
By JB Baker, Buellton
I live in Buellton and have lived in the Santa Ynez Valley for more than 50 years and have never been so sick with allergies as I have this fall. Thanks, cannabis growers who ...
By Seth Steiner, Los Alamos
Aera Energy wants us to green-light its plan to radically ramp up oil operations in Cat Canyon. The company is jointly owned by Exxon and Shell. As you read this, Exxon is awa...
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By THE CANARY
The fundraising race for November 2020 is off to a roaring start! You know elections, for the people, by the people, don’t really matter, right? It’s all about tha...
Solvang Antiques Fine Art Gallery’s annual Holiday Art Show opens on Friday, Nov. 29, and will run through Tuesday, Dec. 31. A special champagne reception to celebrate t...
Heart of the Valley, a free monthly history series presented by the Santa Maria Public Library, hosts its next event on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 10:15 a.m. This month’s mee...
Orcutt Community Theatre’s production of Annie opens at Klein Dance Arts Studio on Friday, Nov. 29, at 7 p.m. This classic Tony Award-winning musical is based on the pop...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
Starting Nov. 16, guests of the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature can expect to find a new photography exhibition inside the museum’s Valley Oak Gallery. The showcase, t...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
Central Coast-based artists Kris Buck and Karen McLean-McGaw have been friends and painting partners for more than two decades, but this month’s exhibition at Gallery Lo...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
More than 25 bands will shift on and off two stages—Solvang Park and the Copenhagen stage—during Solvang’s inaugural Fall Festival, which runs Friday, Nov. 1...
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Writer-director Edward Norton (Keeping the Faith) helms this 1950s-period crime drama based on Jonathan Lethem’s novel about Tourette Syndrome-afflicted private detectiv...
By BETH GIUFFRE
About the same time their 15-month-old daughter, Zoia, took her first steps, Anatoly and Katherine Vorontsov launched the most happening cheese and charcuterie business around...
The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature will host its ninth annual Holiday Marketplace on Sunday, Dec. 1, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Several local artisans have supplied a variety o...
The Naughty Oak Brewing Company hosts its next Beer Yoga workshop on Saturday, Nov. 23, from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Admission includes one hour of yoga and one complimentary pint ...
Landscape paintings by Orcutt-based artist Sheryl Knight are on display at Solvang Antiques Fine Art Gallery through Sunday, Nov. 17. The exhibition includes Vineyards in the ...
The Pacific Conservatory Theatre’s (PCPA) production of Disney’s The Little Mermaid will run through Sunday, Dec. 22. The cast includes Kitty Balay as the villaino...
Toby Tropper (left) portrays a bumbling dentist during a recreation of “The Dentist,” a popular sketch from The Carol Burnett Show. The skit is part of the Great A...
Lydia Pense and Cold Blood perform at Rancho Nipomo Deli and Barbecue on Sunday, Nov. 24, from 6:30 to 10 p.m. This ensemble group performs funk, soul, R&B, and other genr...
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