Los Alamos News

Accusations of fraud continue to be leveled against Mike L. Wilson, a 55-year-old Santa Maria mortgage business owner with many San Luis Obispo County clients and real estate investments.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced researchers are developing new tools for rapidly characterizing biological pathogens that could give rise to potentially deadly pandemics such as Influenza A . This is part of a joint effort by national laboratory-, university- and private-sector institutions.

There are no armed guards to knock out. No sensors to deactivate. No surveillance cameras to cripple.

A proposed municipal landfill in the Solomon Hills would give Santa Maria 90 years of waste capacity and hundreds of acres for recreation areas.

With the Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan being discussed all across the valley, the Valley Journal thought it would be interesting to know how community members felt about the issue of affordable, low-income housing being planned in or near their neighborhoods.

Longtime Santa Maria resident and businessman Michael L. Wilson has been ordered to repay $100,000, plus interest, to two Arroyo Grande residents who sued him, alleging he defrauded them in a loan scheme.

Operating in relative anonymity, the Santa Barbara Community Housing Corp. provides homes to those who need it most For the past 13 years, Marjorie Shore has felt right at home at the Castillo Homes project owned by the Santa Barbara Community Housing Corp., run by executive director Emmet Hawkes.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Detectives are looking for 40-year-old Gilbert Lee Martinez who has been allegedly been ripping off customers while posing as a licensed landscaper.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff's detectives are looking for a man accused of ripping off customers while posing as a landscaper.

Already the biggest city in the county, Santa Maria grew by almost 2 percent in the past year, according to data released by the state Department of Finance last week.

The valley has selected Hannah Vellekamp as this year's Santa Ynez Valley Youth Recreation Queen, and she's no girly-girl. If Vellekamp's history reads like the resume of the poster child for Santa Ynez Valley, it's because she is.

Teaching: the only thing Danielle Burkett has ever wanted to do with her life. As a child, she set up her bedroom to mimic a classroom, spending countless hours playing school.

Arthur Penn Ramirez, who formerly held management positions at the AT&T Bell Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, has been named dean of the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

With impeccable weather, the 27th annual Santa Barbara County Vintners Festival poured about 3,000 people into Lompoc's River Park Saturday.

The Santa Barbara County Planning Commission sent a proposed affordable housing project in Los Alamos to the Board of Supervisors Wednesday with a recommendation for approval.

Signs will be posted in the area of the checkpoint, the location of which was not disclosed, advising motorists that the checkpoint is ahead, Santa Maria police said.

One San Luis Obispo city proposal could change an affordable housing option for your family.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Coroner's Bureau has released the names and photos of all six victims killed in a single vehicle crash south of Los Alamos on Thursday evening, February 19, 2009.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Coroner's Bureau has released the names and photos of all six victims killed in a single vehicle crash south of Los Alamos on Thursday evening, February 19, 2009.

CHP officers are being credited with foiling a kidnapping plot that began in San Francisco on Sunday, February 22, and ended in Los Alamos on Tuesday, February 24.