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Cal Fire/San Luis Obispo Fire Department officials are on the scene of a possible surf rescue at Pismo Beach.
This season, Santa Maria has been awash with the glow of holiday lights and decorations. Homes and businesses throughout the city have decked their walls with lights, wreaths, garland, Santas and Nativity scenes.
A group of Lompoc’s younger residents helped spread holiday cheer Thursday morning to some of the city’s older inhabitants.
Hot rods, school marching bands, a giant pirate ship, youth sports teams, costumed puppies and even some dinosaurs were some of the several entries at the 55th Annual Old Town Orcutt Christmas…
Voices from all over the community will come together this weekend for what organizers are calling the largest community Nativity in the area.
Danny Duffy's 2015 was all bout team success.
Lavon Coleman has had a pretty good 2016.
Lompoc High girls basketball scored its biggest upset of the 2016-17 season, as the Braves took down the nation’s No. 38 ranked team the Buena…
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The Santa Maria Police Department protects the city from wrongdoers all year long. This holiday season the department’s Community Service Unit…
The Combined Federal Campaign wrapped up their two month long fundraising effort at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Dec. 9.
The Vandenberg Air Force Base Honor Guard posted the colors before the game between the San Francisco 49ers and the New York Jets at Levi's St…
In a holiday tradition that now goes back more than a decade, more than 100 children from local military families received new bicycles and helmets Saturday thanks to a local cycling club.
Team V members received a little help getting into the holiday spirit during this year's Trees For Troops held at the Union Bank in Lompoc, Dec. 7.
Col. J. Christopher Moss, 30th Space Wing commander, held two separate sessions of a base-wide All Call at Vandenberg Air Force Base on Dec. 20.
Santa is still taking late wish lists and posing for photos at the Santa Maria Town Center.
As the road to 2016 comes to an end, the Department of Motor Vehicles is reminding motorists statewide of a handful of new traffic safety laws set to hit the books when the clock strikes midni…
Santa Maria native Eddie Galarza has been hired as the city's new outreach coordinator, a newly created full-time position designed to reduce youth violence and juvenile delinquency through co…
The holiday spirit filled Santa Maria’s Veterans' Memorial Community Center and spilled out into the street and around the corner Thursday morning during the Central Coast Rescue Mission’s Chr…
Two massage business employees were arrested in Orcutt on Wednesday after an investigation revealed that the establishment was soliciting prostitution services online.
A parole search yielded firearms, drugs and the arrest of two suspects in a Santa Maria home Tuesday. A third suspect remains at large.
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CHICAGO (AP) — It'll be a white Christmas for the northern Plains and some Western states, but it's likely to cause troublesome travel.
BEIJING (AP) — China's first aircraft carrier has set off for the Western Pacific for an open-sea training exercise, the Defense Ministry said.
CHICAGO (AP) — It'll be a white Christmas for the northern Plains and some Western states, but it's likely to cause troublesome travel.
NEW YORK (AP) — An engineer who fell asleep at the controls of a speeding train in New York City, causing a derailment that killed four people, will receive a lifetime disability pension from the commuter railroad that employed him, a published report said
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Children from around the world are calling the North American Aerospace Defense Command to ask where Santa is, and they're getting a cheery answer about the mythical route.
NEW YORK (AP) — A&E is scrapping plans for an eight-part documentary series about the Ku Klux Klan after finding out that some participants of the hate group were paid for their work on it.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's prime minister lashed out at President Barack Obama on Saturday, accusing him of a "shameful ambush" at the United Nations over West Bank settlements and saying he is looking forward to working with his "friend" President-elect Donald Trump.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A powerful typhoon was heading for a Christmas Day collision with the central Philippines.
PARIS (AP) — Open borders symbolize liberty and forward thinking for many Europeans — but they increasingly look like the continent's Achilles' heel.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — More than 54,000 people in the southern German city of Augsburg will have to leave their homes Christmas morning while authorities defuse a giant 1.8-ton aerial bomb from World War II.
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NEW YORK (AP) — A popular member of "The Howard Stern Show" known to fans as Joey Boots has been found dead in his New York apartment. Joseph Bassolino was 49.
