San Marcos News

Winds of up to 40 miles an hour are fanning a wildfire that's forced thousands of residents of California's Santa Barbara County to leave their homes.

Bryan Walton / Santa Maria Times A firefighting aircraft drops retardant along West Camino Cielo while battling the Gap fire near Goleta on Thursday.

Amid a gentle dusting of ash flakes, county fire officials described how the Gap Fire burned all the way down the mountainside and into the actual yard space of a Goleta home Thursday might and how the ...

The Monterey County Sheriff's Office Thursday extended the mandatory evacuations along state Highway 1 in Big Sur due to the Basin Complex Fire to include the area between Palo Colorado Canyon Road and the town ...

A fast-growing fire in the Los Padres National Forest forced authorities to order more evacuations as flames moved toward homes and knocked out electricity to thousands of homes and businesses in Santa Barbara ...

Photos by Bryan Walton / Santa Maria Times By Wednesday evening, the Gap fire had burned about 350 acres and come within two miles of Goleta, officials said.

CALIFORNIA is on shaky financial ground. Even if the Republicans and Democrats come together on a spending plan very soon, it won't prevent the state from borrowing $10 billion at rates that are higher than ...

More than 200 firefighters battled a wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest that forced evacuations and threatened homes near the San Marcos Pass, authorities said Wednesday.

Eight people accused of growing nearly 6,900 marijuana plants in the county pleaded guilty Friday in federal court, U.S. Attorney Karen P. Hewitt said.

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ESCONDIDO: One of two pit bulls that attacked a woman's dog and couldn't be subdued was shot and killed Tuesday by an Escondido police officer.

Elizabeth Nila's old street in Murphy Canyon could have been called Surrogate Lane.

' Instead of asking 140 high school students posed for a picture on the lawn of Palomar Medical Center to say "cheese," Palomar College GEAR UP director Calvin One Deer Gavin asked them to recite, "The only ...

When a shuttered home on the intersection of Richmar Avenue and Firebird Lane caught fire Monday morning, firefighters quickly got control of the blaze.

They found the perfect place to settle in for a Saturday evening, a quiet shoreline spot beneath a big tree with branches that sunk down into the Delta water.

Click photo to launch slide show. From Jeff Schwilk: Outstanding SDMM Rally at the LDS Church in San Marcos today!! Over 20 patriots came out to protest the SD Mexican Consulate issuing hundreds of matricula ...

Sullins Connector Solutions announces the availbility of male and female 0.050 board-to-board connectors engineered for higher signal density in space-constrained applications.

Dozens of same-sex couples got married at county offices in San Diego, San Marcos and Chula Vista Tuesday morning, choosing to wed on the first day here when such unions were legally allowed.

It might not get you into as much trouble, but that little Tabasco bottle filled with Iraqi sand is as illegal as a fully automatic AK47.

Jim Honeycutt and Alex Petrenko are in no hurry to get married. For many gay and lesbian couples, the chance to marry is nothing short of a dream come true.