While the steady flow of box office returns for The Odyssey continues setting new records, referencing the film’s source material helped one elected official illustrate her concerns about Solvang’s AI ...
A leprechaun sipping beer. Pets piloting an airplane. A slice of pizza riding waves. Jessica Manzanares’ painting résumé is eclectic. Her work isn’t confined to canvas or a sketch pad. It’s been ...
Deferred maintenance” is a term used to define things that need to be done but will have to wait until we can afford it. In government it usually means that they have the funds to fix the roof, but ...
A recent $6 million contribution to The Lompoc Theatre Project became the largest private donation in the organization’s history. Now only around $5 million remains before the full $18.9 million is ...
Two years after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Phone-Free School Act, kids in California are about to find out the effects of ...
A multi-month drug smuggling scheme that ended with a $6,600 payday for one Lompoc couple could cost them a combined 10 years in federal prison. On Aug. 5, former correctional officer Paul Betancourt ...
A goal to preserve affordable housing for more than 1,000 senior residents—specifically tenants of five mobile home parks in Santa Maria—prompted the city to recently refresh its zoning standards.
Lawsuits. Santa Maria thinks it can avoid them with a preemptive strike! But mobile home park owners around town are low-key threatening to sue over the city’s new mobile home park ordinance anyway.
White Buffalo Land Trust’s call for artists is open through Aug. 30 for 2027 residencies. The program asks the selected artists to explore how creativity and ecology intersect. “Through this residency ...
On Aug. 10, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) secured $1.3 million in new federal funding for the Santa Barbara Airport for a range of infrastructure upgrades. According to Carbajal’s office, ...
Close to its one-year mark since opening in Santa Maria, Central Coast Collectibles suffered back-to-back burglaries in July that cost the store a pretty penny. The break-ins happened within just a ...
For the sixth time in four decades, City Council members in Santa Maria got a bump in their salaries. They’ll make an extra $341 per month starting in December. The Santa Maria City Council voted 3-2 ...