Jacob Hensley doesn't enjoy being high off the ground, so taking a turn walking across a suspended rope in front of fellow Boy Scouts at the Santa Maria Town Center on Saturday was no minor task.Read More

Sightings of ghostly "spirit soldiers" haunting La Purisima Mission State Historic Park are as legendary in Lompoc as the flower fields and great surf at Jalama Beach.Read More

With plastic bags a hot issue these days, County officials are excited to announce a new way to recycle unwanted bags.Read More

Since 2009 Shadow's Fund has been rehabilitating and finding homes for an animal that's both over-bred and misunderstood, the pit bull.Read More

Digital Help is designed to aid you in getting the most from your digital photography, printing, scanning, and image creation.Read More

You can tell a lot about the inherent biases and assumptions of the state's media by their opinion columnists.Read More

The walls of Santa Maria's Betteravia Government Center reverberated Tuesday with chants of "show us what democracy looks like," as about 85 demonstrators protested wage cuts for workers in Santa Barbara County's Social Services Department.Read More

Even though we're still in the midst of winter, The Chronicle's Food & Wine staff has been enjoying a small harvest of fava leaves from our rooftop garden.Read More

A public hearing on how best to use money allotted to Northern Santa Barbara County by the state drew mostly Los Alamos residents seeking increases in bus services.Read More

Authorities in Santa Barbara have released photos and information about a man who is facing charges of child molestation who was a youth soccer coach in San Diego in the mid-1990s. Terence Paul Stevens, 52, is charged with 17 felony counts related to two victims in the Lompoc ...Read More