Lifeguards usually don’t start working in Pismo Beach until Memorial Day, but with the unseasonably warm temperatures, people ...

As temperatures continue to soar near record-breaking numbers across the Central Coast, local beaches are expected to draw ...

Construction officially kicked off Thursday on the new Ventana Sport Courts facility, located across from Chumash Park on Ventana Drive.

Pismo Beach is serving up some new recreation opportunities for locals and visitors. On Wednesday, the city celebrated the groundbreaking of its new Ventana Sports Courts, located at 30 Ventana Drive ...

A new barbershop has opened in Pismo Beach. Stay Gold, a men’s grooming and barbering establishment owned by a woman, opened on March 10, 2026, at 1051 Price Street, it announced in a social media ...

Pismo's Restaurant Manager Psalm Behpoor, who has been in ICE custody since June 2025, was released Friday on bail.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The European timeline in California is surprisingly short. Spanish explorer Juan Rodrîguez Cabrillo explored the coast up to ...

The European timeline in California is surprisingly short. Spanish explorer Juan Rodrîguez Cabrillo explored the coast up to Oregon in 1542-43. Then he broke his leg and died of complications after ...

MOJAVE DESERT — The desert tortoise, a once-resilient reptile, is a keystone species in the Mojave Desert, where other animals depend for their survival on the burrows it digs. But it is imperiled in ...

As the coordinator for Surfrider’s Oceano Vehicle Free Beach (OVFB) campaign I was interested in Mr. Donegan’s New Times opinion piece (“Sharing the Dunes is caring,” Feb. 12). His analysis of the ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is seeking grant funding to provide continued patrols and ...