The Lompoc City Council, in a special 1.5-hour meeting on Friday, did an about-face and voted 3-0 to approve the city’s ...

The last time before this year that a Santa Ynez boys basketball team won an outright league championship, Ronald Reagan was ...

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One of the most contentious projects in the Carpinteria Valley — a proposed 25,400 square-foot processing building for a cannabis ...

Local qualifying, conducted over 18 holes at 110 sites in 43 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, will take place between April 16 ...

Lompoc won’t be left off future Santa Barbara County wine maps after all. During a special meeting Friday, the City Council — ...

New station KTNK Rocket 103.7 is launching in Lompoc, aiming to deliver a format of classic hits — "a little bit of ...

Federal health officials say a dairy worker in Nevada has been infected with a new type of bird flu that’s different from the ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. –Two people were hurt in a house fire in Santa Maria Sunday morning. The Santa Maria Fire Department ...

The winning numbers in Monday evening’s drawing of the "California Daily 3 Evening" game were: ...

Santa Barbara County residents should prepare for a major storm starting Tuesday night, with flooding in low-lying areas and ...

New York Times reporters have been writing personal portraits about the fires in the California Today newsletter. Here is a collection of their dispatches on what the disaster means to them ...