That’s the sound of hearts breaking everywhere. Sources say Anderson Cooper has one foot out the door at CNN. “Ratings are ...

Congressman Jimmy Panetta and local physicians express concern over the impact of President Trump's domestic policy bill on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in the Central Coast.

Movie star Zac Efron's recent Instagram post had Central Coast residents saying, "Hey! I know that place." In a post from ...

Temperatures are on the rise across the Central Coast, with Thursday expected to be our warmest day this week. Here's what you can expect in your community tomorrow. In Paso Robles the high will be 99 ...

The Central Coast Wine Competition (CCWC) named Le Vigne Winery as the 2025 Winery of the Year. Based in Paso Robles, Le ...

Here at home, the Madre Fire is currently at 30% containment. Wind speeds of over 20 mph are expected at the site of the fire. We can expect a warm-up later this week, with some inland areas hitting ...

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Central Coast immigrant advocacy organizations held a news conference in Santa Maria on June 12, 2025, after ICE arrested at least 40 undocumented farmworkers in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties ...

OXNARD, Calif. — At 6 a.m. Wednesday, Juvenal Solano drove slowly along the cracked roads that border the fields of strawberry and celery that cloak this fertile expanse of Ventura County, his ...

One of the Central Coast’s oldest shopping centres is on the market just a few years after it was snapped up by a private equity firm. Here’s what we know. And now the retail mall in the heart ...

Erica Diaz, senior policy advocate for the Central Coast Alliance United for Sustainable Economy, said it was one of the worst workplace raids they’ve seen on the Central Coast in 15 years.

A Central Coast Planned Parenthood worker strike was avoided this week after successful negotiations between the organization and a labor union.