Dan Walters has been my favorite California political journalist for decades now. First with the Sacramento Bee and with CalMatters since 2017, his ...

Ernest James Lattimer was arrested for sex crimes involving minors after a multi-year investigation revealed multiple ...

A Santa Barbara jury has convicted two members of the small but particularly violent Carpas street gang of murder in the ...

A jury found Angel Varela and Oscar Trujillo-Guttierez guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of ...

Nearly four decades after the killing of a mother of three in Santa Maria, a prosecuting attorney detailed scientific ...

Local advocates are hosting a forum on Thursday, Jan. 22, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Santa Maria Country Club to educate ...

In what head coach Frank Knight expected to be a rebuilding season, the underclass-dominated Moreau Catholic-Hayward boys are 17-3 and may be the veteran coach's best team.

Sheriff’s detectives have arrested a Santa Maria man on multiple felony charges related to the sexual abuse of children, and ...

A Santa Maria man has been arrested for sexual abuse of children and are urging any additional survivors to come forward.

The trial for a Georgia man charged with the cold case murder of a woman in Santa Maria kicked off in Santa Barbara County ...

Rancho Santa Fe — Rancho Santa Fe’s year-old fine-dining restaurant Ponsaty’s closed on Sunday, but those doors ...

A San Luis Obispo County resident sued the cities of Grover Beach and Santa Maria, alleging that their police departments colluded to protect an officer with a reported history of misconduct. In his ...