Welcome to the 2025 Best of Santa Maria Valley contest, a year-long celebration of Santa Maria businesses and people. The first phase of the contest, Nominations, opens on Wednesday, January 22.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - The Santa Maria Valley Chamber launched its new visitors center, as well as its newly remodeled office building, during an open house event held on Wednesday. The new space ...

In Maria, Jolie takes on the challenge of portraying opera legend Maria Callas, balancing the diva’s commanding stage presence with the complexities of her private life. To embody Callas ...

Maria grew up in Berlin, Wisconsin. She started her career in journalism in Green Bay as the first CW 14 Star. She stepped away from TV while fighting breast cancer in 2020. With a great team of ...

Dan Baumgardt does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

A brush fire broke out in the riverbed of the Santa Ana River in Jurupa Valley on Tuesday, Jan. 21 just before 5 p.m., burning at least two acres by 5:45 p.m. By around 10 p.m., the fire had grown ...

A brush fire broke out in the Santa Ana River’s bottom in the Jurupa Valley area just before 5 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 21, burning 39 acres before firefighters late that night stopped the blaze from ...

Firefighters in Riverside County responded to a fire that broke out Tuesday evening in Jurupa Valley. The Clay Fire was reported at about 5 p.m. near the Santa Ana River, along Van Buren Boulevard ...

The Clay fire broke out in the riverbed of the Santa Ana River in Jurupa Valley on Tuesday, Jan. 21 just before 5 p.m., burning at least two acres by 5:45 p.m. By 7 p.m., the fire had grown to 38 ...