With one hand holding onto a cardboard cutout of a silhouetted body, Jeanne Sparks told the Santa Maria City Council she ...

Whether the perpetrators realized they were littering or not, too many people have treated Solvang’s newspaper racks like ...

Renee Good is the tragedy that I feared and that no one wanted to see happen. The fact her death occurred half a country away on the snow-covered streets of Minnesota does not lessen the impact and ...

A San Luis Obispo County resident sued the cities of Grover Beach and Santa Maria, alleging that their police departments ...

The Santa Maria City Council finally decided to weigh in on immigration enforcement activities, symbolically. At the Jan. 20 ...

The perks of lending the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center a helping hand can appeal to folks from pretty much all walks of life, ...

U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla (D-California) and Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) announced new legislation on Jan. 26 to enforce new ...

Two attorneys. Seven witnesses. Eight hours of cross examination. Those with stakes in a recent arbitration hearing’s outcome will probably not hear Santa Barbara County’s verdict on a rent dispute ...

The Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture is taking applications for the 2026 County Arts Making Impact (AMI) grant, a program that aims to expand arts access and eliminate barriers to ...

Paintings and hand-colored copper etchings by Danish artist Susanne Thea are up at the Elverhoj Museum of History and Art through March 22. The exhibit, Snapshots: Traveling with HC Andersen, is ...

Del Cielo Mobile Estates recently proposed a $39 rent increase for residents tied to an ongoing lawsuit. The park owner sued Santa Barbara County for adopting an ordinance to prevent the community and ...

When a friend asked Veronica Medina whose job she would want out of anyone in the world, Medina immediately had an answer: her high school ceramics teacher. The question came after Medina graduated ...