Santa Barbara Mental Wellness Center has added four local leaders to its Board of Directors as the organization prepares to ...

At the other end of the classroom sits 20-year-old Saramerrie Torres, one of several younger students enrolled in the course.

The city of Santa Maria continues to provide rental security deposit assistance through its grant-funded Tenant Based Rental Assistance (TBRA) Program.

The simple and inescapable fact is that for decades California’s public education system has been producing less than stellar outcomes for its 5.7 million ...

Dolly Parton’s cultural power was never simply a matter of popularity. It was the unlikely range of people drawn to her — people who often shared very ...

A new school year means new friends, new teachers, and, at some Santa Barbara schools, new principals.  This year, Santa ...

The fate of a Santa Maria man now rests in the hands of a Santa Barbara County Superior Court jury deliberating whether he participated in a “targeted ...

More than 5,600 Pacific Gas & Electric Company customers were without power late Sunday afternoon in the Orcutt area ...

Two young adults, ages 18 and 19, were arrested this weekend in separate incidents after being found with firearms during patrols aimed at quelling Santa ...

Two people were injured, one critically, in a single-vehicle crash in northwest Santa Maria on Sunday night. At approximately 9:45 p.m., personnel from ...

Mother knew best for the young and restless Ben Howland. Mary Howland’s life-changing move was to get her bouncing little boy ...

The Santa Barbara City College Women's Volleyball team began their season with a split at the Bakersfield Quad, sweeping Mt. San Antonio (25-19, 25-21, ...