More than 75 community members turned out to see the Santa Maria Valley Chamber’s new Visitor Center and renovated offices during a recent open house. The ...

Lompoc, founded as a temperance colony and now home to multiple tasting rooms, would be axed from future maps and advertising ...

A real-time look at how some residents experienced the Palisades and Eaton fires in Altadena, Sierra Madre and the Pacific ...

Most of the Central Coast received a little bit of rain this weekend. This week temperatures are cooler than we've been ...

Press Democrat readers comment on school closures, and more.

At age 75, Vadevino Alano keeps up a brisk pace as he strides through the forest on the way to the Armadillo’s Den — a ...

"I teach kindergarten to bilingual children in Japan. One day, we were studying the traditional dance of another country and ...

Florence, the capital of Italy’s Tuscan region, is a city packed with culture. From its cobbled streets to its glamorous gardens and exclusive rooftop bars the city has something to offer for every ...

Santa Cruz County's annual homelessness count revealed a dramatic shift, with one group of volunteers spotting only three people along a stretch of the Pajaro River levee in Watsonville after most ...

A technological investigation at Sforza Castle found that it does in fact hold underground passages once described by ...

In the last segment of the Stone of Madness campaign, titled "The Gate of Saint Jerome," you encountered Brother Pedro, ...

I know what you’re thinking. Cabo? Where 18-year-old college kids go for spring break to cut loose and make decisions they’ll ...