That's because the Santa Maria Valley Strawberry Festival kicks off Friday, April 25, with a three-day weekend community event at the Santa Maria Fairpark. The festival offers a wide variety of ...

In late April 2025, I had the opportunity to visit a new area along the coast: the Santa Maria Valley. In the past, I drive through it on my way north to Big Sur or the Bay Area. Oh, how wrong I ...

The Lompoc Valley Flower Festival will make a return to Ryon Memorial Park for its 72nd year, featuring four days of games, ...

“These programs are needed more than ever to help the city’s most vulnerable residents and improve the overall condition of the city’s neighborhoods,” the city of Santa Maria reports.

A Santa Maria post office is officially being renamed to honor former mayor Larry Lavagnino. As KSBY reported back in December, a bill put forward by Congressman Salud Carbajal to rename the U.S ...

A Santa Maria man is suspected of buying products and reselling them without a license. Credit: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office photo For the second time this month, deputies have arrested a ...

ROME — The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the center of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven popes.

He will be the 1st pontiff in more than a century not to be buried in St Peter's Basilica Nuns walk past Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, where the Pope will be buried after his funeral. AFP The ...

The Native Elements Art Festival + Market picks up the torch by naming two inaugural awardees and hailing their achievements ...