A group of Central Coast and state leaders began the new year in front of a federal facility in Santa Maria, denouncing the ...

During the last week of 2025, Santa Barbara County and the City of Santa Maria became the epicenter of federal immigration ...

Nearly 150 members of Santa Barbara county’s communities – including about 85 residents of Santa Maria – were reported ...

Nedry Aguilar struggled to hold back tears as she described life in Venezuela, a country she fled more than two decades ago ...

Immigrant rights organizations sent out urgent messages warning of “devastating escalation” in federal immigration ...

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

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 ...

Since President Trump's immigration raids began sweeping through California's cities and farm fields, state Senate President ...

His daughter celebrated her first birthday, learned to walk and to talk during the five months 29-year-old Juan Lamas Aguilar ...

On Wednesday, a felony charge of first-degree murder was filed against Ashlee Buzzard in connection with the death ...

First she heard the planes. Then, the explosions. “It really scared me,” Judith Saturno said in a telephone interview in ...