The chief of the Lompoc City Fire Department is expected to leave the post next month to become chief of the Montecito Fire Protection District, Montecito officials announced.

Friday night, an inmate was discovered missing from a minimum security satellite camp next to Federal Correctional ...

The first round of projects funded through Lompoc Unified School District’s Measure M is moving forward on schedule, with stadium lighting completed and additional safety, infrastructure and campus im ...

A Lompoc Valley man has been arrested in connection with a multi-vehicle crash Sunday morning in Santa Maria where he ...

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Officers recently seized 58 chickens at a property in Lompoc as part of a cockfighting investigation, according to Santa ...

Animal Control officers seized 58 chickens from a Lompoc Valley property this week related to an ongoing cockfighting ...

Santa Barbara County Animal Control Officers seized 58 chickens at a rural location in unincorporated Lompoc as part of a cockfighting investigation last week.

Over 50 chickens were rescued and evidence of cockfighting was recovered after two search warrants were executed ...

UPDATE: The Lompoc Police Department shares that three girls, first reported missing Monday night, have been found. The Lompoc Police Department is looking for three missing girls. They say family ...

Authorities seized dozens of birds in Lompoc during an investigation into illegal cockfighting, a practice officials say has ...