During the last week of 2025, Santa Barbara County and the City of Santa Maria became the epicenter of federal immigration sweeps in California, with nearly 150 people arrested over a four-day period ...

There was palpable tension in Omoku Town, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, as a lawyer allegedly shot ...

A 17-year-old was arrested Saturday by Santa Maria Police for firearm possession and related charges, after various ...

On January 17, 2026, at approximately 10:15 p.m., officers were patrolling the mall parking structure at 120 E. Main St. due ...

It was good she had. “Traffic was terrible,” she tells Andres over the phone as she pulls into a downtown parking lot. She ...

Santa Maria Police arrested a man for DUI following a traffic collision at Broadway and Cook on January 4, 2026.

Andres Feria, 57, of Santa Maria, was arrested on Sunday evening for felony DUI, after a vehicle collision near Broadway and ...

After being sworn in to her new role as State Senate president pro tempore in Sacramento, Monique Limón celebrated with a ...

The last few days of 2025 were very different than the rest of the year when it came to immigration enforcement on the Central Coast. An estimated 147 arrests were made in Santa Barbara and San Luis ...

ICE agents took at least 92 people into custody during the past three days, data from one local advocacy group showed.

First she heard the planes. Then, the explosions. “It really scared me,” Judith Saturno said in a telephone interview in Spanish. “They flew over my house.” U.S. military aircraft flew Friday night ...

A year-end wave of immigration raids in California's Central Coast led to the apprehension of 147 people, sparking outrage from elected officials and immigrant rights groups.