Santa Maria News

Investigators were searching for a man suspected in a stabbing that sent a Santa Maria man to the hospital Sunday, according to Santa Maria police .

California is one of only two states in the nation that have not comprehensively regulated their groundwater.

The image of a boarded-up Santa Barbara County diner has made it to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, thanks to Christa Weston, a 2013 graduate of Ernest Righetti High School in Santa Maria.

A 19-year-old Santa Maria man is most likely heading to trial to face charges for threatening a California Highway Patrol officer near Los Alamos at the end of a pursuit last July.

Share your business news, including employee announcements and personnel moves, by emailing news@noozhawk.com .] The store, which created about 80 new jobs, is approximately one-quarter the size of a Walmart Supercenter and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

The largest lingcod caught by a sports fisherman off the Central Coast in a number of years was bagged early Sunday afternoon by an Atascadero angler.

Two people were injured Thursday afternoon in a collision on Highway 101 near Santa Maria, according to the California Highway Patrol .

Kids can get a "taste of Spanish" in a new, introductory Spanish language course offered through Allan Hancock College Community Education's College for Kids.

Santa Barbara County Superior Court Presiding Judge, Arthur A. Garcia, announced the pending retirement of Gary M. Blair, Court Executive Officer, after 37 years of dedicated public service.

A $26 million project to connect the Nipomo Mesa to an outside water supply withstood a recent legal challenge by a citizens group.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department reported an inmate died last week, apparently from natural causes, but stated that it will release an official cause of death once the investigation is complete.

A jury in Santa Maria has begun deliberating the fate of a 19-year-old former St. Joseph High School student accused of having unlawful sex with a fellow student.

When the first wine grapes were planted in California by Spanish missionaries in the late 1700s, the Chumash people's economic empire extended from the Malibu shores through Santa Barbara to the Paso Robles plains.

After Armando Yepez’s request for a new trial was denied Monday, the 22-year old man — who was convicted of killing an Arroyo Grande teen — will spend the rest of his life in state prison.

The greatest compliment Santa Maria-Bonita School District Superintendent Phil Alvarado can receive is reassurance that he hasn't really changed over the years.

The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission received Girl Scout Troop No. 50786 at its Santa Barbara facility last Thursday, where the girls donated cookies to the organization.

Allan Hancock College Community Education will offer science classes for kids this summer at its Santa Maria campus and at Vandenberg Air Force Base.

Monday-Monday June the 10th Already. What's been going thru my head all week is whether or not the 14 Year old boy involved in the gang torture murder in Santa Maria can ever be a nonviolent productive member of society? A commenter asked the question on Edhat last week and it's been stuck in my head since then.

Neptune Aviation Services has marked three years of successful operations of its emerging fleet of BAe 146 new generation, large airtankers, as one of its reconfigured, one-time regional jet airliners works the Power House fire in Southern California.

A Santa Maria judge on Thursday sentenced three Lompoc gang members to life in prison for their involvement in a January 2010 slaying.