By KASEY BUBNASH
A Central Coast charter school system is facing legal trouble again, this time in the form of a lawsuit recently filed by a former employee alleging wrongful termination.
The...
By CHRIS MCGUINNESS
Heart disease and overdoses remain the top killers of homeless individuals in Santa Barbara County, according to health officials.
The information was included in an annual r...
By KASEY BUBNASH
After more than six months of preparation, the Santa Maria Public Library officially began accepting passport applications on March 11.
The move, which took months of plannin...
By CHRIS MCGUINNESS
Santa Maria plans to use revenue from a recently approved sales tax hike to beef up its police and fire departments, among other enhancements.
Members of the City Council dir...
By CHRIS MCGUINNESS
As the cost of living in California continues to skyrocket, a growing population of people in the state are living in their vehicles. The trend has led to clashes between thos...
By CAMILLIA LANHAM
Although eight projects are currently proposed for Pismo State Beach and the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area, only one is stirring up trouble with the Central Coa...
• State Sens. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) and Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) convened a joint informational hearing of the state Senate Committees on Judiciary and ...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
Under the shared belief that the economy's problems are too big for any individual community to solve on its own, a coalition of Central Coast-based business and civic leaders...
By RON FINK
On Tuesday, March 5, the Lompoc City Council discussed the ongoing problem of the homeless using the streets of the city as a campground for their mobile residences.
The city...
By Ellis Romero - Santa Maria
There is an age-old tactic employed by insecure people. Try in every way to belittle another person in order to make yourself look better, smarter, or more important.
I hav...
By Lucia Casalinuovo - Oceano
Since State Parks disclosed its intention to add an off-roading campground and access road by Oso Flaco Lake, people in that area have mobilized against it: the residents of N...
By KASEY BUBNASH
It's been a slow start to the high school softball season so far thanks to the rainy weather, but Pioneer Valley High School student Monique Gomez is already showing a lot of ...
By KAREN GARCIA
Current Allan Hancock College student Kailia Villanueva has big dreams for her future.
"I see myself down the line as an entrepreneur, and I want to own a business,"...
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My fair-weathered feathered friends are looking forward to their trips north along the Pacific Flyway. They can hit the Central Coast with a glance toward the ocean and sett...
By REBECCA ROSE
Jesslyn Brundy has a good reason to celebrate these days. The Cal State Northridge student, a former Allan Hancock College design student, recently won $5,000 as part of a des...
By REBECCA ROSE
In food writing, the word succulent conjures up images of something juicy, ripe to the point of perfection, or beautifully fork-tender. In nature, it evokes a sense of heartin...
By REBECCA ROSE
Artists Sheryl Knight and Linda Mutti are featured through April 30 at Gallery Los Olivos in an exhibit called For the Joy of Painting.
Knight and Mutti will feature work i...
The Solvang Library will present a first-person dramatic history presentation on librarian Frances Burns Linn on March 19 at 5:30 p.m.
Linn was inducted into the California L...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
A concert series taking place on a pirate ship during a four-night Caribbean cruise sounds like a scam of Fyre Festival proportions. Getting scammed over a failed music fest o...
Co-writers and directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck (Mississippi Grind) helm this new installation in the Marvel Universe. In 1995, former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Carol Da...
By REBECCA ROSE
I have an unabashed love for ugly produce.
For decades, Americans have been trained by commercials and mass marketing to believe that the best vegetables are the ones that lo...
Traditional Mission Life Day takes place on March 16 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at La Purisima Mission, located at 2295 Purisima Road, Lompoc. The event features tours, costumed d...
The Royal Family KIDS Benefit Dinner takes place on March 23, from 6 to 10 p.m. at Santa Maria Fairpark, located at 937 S. Thornburg St., Santa Maria. The event includes a bar...
Zest it Up Inc. presents a watercolor and wine workshop on March 24, from 4 to 6 p.m. at Zaca Mesa Winery, located at 6905 Foxen Canyon Road, Los Olivos. Guests can enjoy prac...
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