ALF Food Pantry supplies groceries to people living in Atascadero, Templeton, Santa Margarita, Creston and California Valley. Board President Tim Eckles says they frequently serve more than 200 people a day.

Santa Barbara County is considering new regulations on street vendors who sell things like prepared food and beverages. The Board of Supervisors will consider the issue at their next meeting on February 10.

The California Labor Commissioner’s Office just settled a lawsuit with the Santa Maria-based company Alco Harvesting, also known as Bonipak Produce, and some farmworkers will receive back pay and damages for wage-and-hour violations.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is officially underway bringing filmmakers, celebrities and movie fans to the Central Coast.

The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is officially underway bringing filmmakers, celebrities and movie fans to the Central Coast.

Mountain Lion sightings across the Central Coast continue with the Santa Barbara Animal Control now warning residents that several sightings were reported in the Oak Park and Mission Creek areas.

At a Santa Maria City Council meeting Tuesday, Councilmember Gloria Soto opened her comment with disappointment. “ I was extremely underwhelmed by what I read,” Soto said in response to a new resolution expressing support for the city’s immigrant community.

Several local businesses stayed closed, including Thrifty Beaches, Corazón Cafe and SLO Cider, but for the businesses that were open, many said they didn’t notice fewer customers on Friday.

A candlelight vigil in San Luis Obispo brought together local nurses, lawmakers and community members on Saturday to remember Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse from Minneapolis who was fatally shot by federal immigration agents last month.

Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed a woman in Santa Barbara's Eastside Wednesday morning, while in the process of detaining a woman near Carpinteria and Salinas Streets.