Santa Maria girls volleyball vs. Valley Christian Academy, 5 p.m. Cabrillo at SLO Classical Academy, 6 p.m. Lompoc flag football at Morro Bay, 6 p.m. Orcutt Academy girls volleyball vs. Nipomo, 6 p.m.

Long before Dr. Nicolasa “Niki” Sandoval became a nationally respected education leader, she was a first-generation college student trying to figure out what came next.

In December 2014, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus presented Herbert Claudius Jr. with the Legion of Merit, posthumously ...

SpaceX is targeting Saturday afternoon for a Falcon 9 launch of the USSF-366 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E at ...

I hoped we might discuss the darkness intrinsicate to the human spirit, so ably captured in literature by Dostoevsky.

Armed with a flurry of new laws, state officials have been pressing local governments to make it easier for housing ...

A friend remarked that I appear to be looking a bit slimmer and trimmer lately, and he asked if there was anything I was doing differently. I told him I was dancing every morning. “Dancing? What do ...

Longtime Buellton resident Kia Beckert is the winner of a handmade quilt raffled by the Friends of the Buellton Library as a fundraiser for the Buellton Library. The winning ticket was drawn at the ...

The criminal case against Lompoc city council member Stephen Bridge has been continued into September while his attorney prepares a motion seeking dismissal of the charges stemming from the city's ...

Tuskegee University’s updated dress code has revived an old debate about professionalism, respectability politics, and how much responsibility Black institutions should take in preparing young people ...

The only mystery is whether Democrats can capture all five of the extra seats targeted in a voter-approved gerrymander of ...

The emergency departments at Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital and Santa Barbara Cottage have received the 2026 Emergency Nurses Association Lantern Award, recognizing their work in emergency nursing ...