Los Alamos News

Cybersecurity efforts to protect a leading U.S. nuclear laboratory's classified computer network remain lacking even after a series of security lapses, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department has issued a permit for a prescribed burn on the Bar-M Ranch property.

The Children's Project Academy has taken a giant leap forward by purchasing a 114-acre site in Los Alamos to build a residential charter school for foster children in grades seven through 12.

A big earthquake and resultant fire could trigger potentially deadly releases of radioactive materials from Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico due to "major deficiencies" in the nuclear weapons lab's safety planning, federal safety experts warned Tuesday.

Scientists familiar with the work of a former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear physicist whose house was searched by the FBI said he is not a spy.

A Garden Grove man is arrested for a violent attempted robbery in Los Alamos. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's deputies were called to a gas station on the 600 blk.

We've restocked the shelves with hand-printed Edhat t-shirt. And, they are truly sensational.

Highly trained color consultants no doubt have at least 1,527 names for yellow. I had three: school bus yellow, submarine yellow and midlife-crisis-Corvette yellow .

If it wasn't for the snow cones, root-beer floats, soft-serve ice cream and a dunk tank masquerading as a very small, but effective swimming pool, Los Alamos Old Days on Saturday could have melted into the history it celebrates.

The Central Coast is a very big place. We have a pretty sizable chunk of it in Monterey County, but if you drive south through San Luis Obispo, past Los Alamos, and watch acres of Santa Barbara County unfold in front of you, and you get a sense of scale.

As the days get shorter, the work days get longer for the South Coast's winemakers, who are excited about this year's vintages.

Beef is considered one of North America's most popular sources of protein, but for a group of local women, it's also a bastion of passion and camaraderie.

Faculty members at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School say rodeo is sufficiently acknowledged, culminating in rewarding its participants with letters.

5 at Albuquerque. A homebred for Superstition Ranch, Cheatin a Little won the 5 1/2-furlong race by three-quarters of a length in 1:05.79. A California-bred, Cheatin a Little is the second winner from the Prized mare Our Blue Ribbon.

To promote environmental stewardship, Marian Medical Center's Partners for the Environment Committee will host a vendor fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today.

Old rhythm and blues favorites as well as original tunes are set to fill the Santa Maria air Sunday.

The week-old La Brea Fire grew to 108 square miles Friday as it burned in Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Maria, but firefighters made significant progress on a fire line on its western edge.

Under heavy brown clouds, white ash gently blanketed the South Coast on Thursday as the 48,000-acre La Brea Fire raged out of control in Los Padres National Forest east of Santa Maria.

Another fire has sprung up in Santa Barbara County, this one near Palmer Road at Highway 101, in Los Alamos.

It has been a long time since any good news has come from the auto industry. Bankruptcies, closed manufacturing plants and local dealerships, requests for government bailouts and corporate reorganizations haven't paved a smooth road.