The VOTING phase of our 2025 Best of Santa Maria Valley contest closes on Saturday night! You can vote once per day in each subcategory so make sure you get your two final votes in. Click here ...

He passed away peacefully at his home on Feb. 27, 2025. Jim moved to Santa Maria as a child, where he lived with his parents and sister, Margaret “Anne” Glines. The family resided on the Rock ...

A ruthless ruler and opponent, devoted wife and mother to sixteen children, Maria Theresa’s forty year rule over her European territories is nothing if not miraculous. The second and eldest surviving ...

Torrential rains caused landslides and severe flooding across rural Peru on Thursday. In Nazca, the Aja River overflowed, swallowed farmland and destroyed homes while collapsing bridges left residents ...

The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are pre-Columbian geoglyphs stretching across the desert sands. The Associated Press Posted: February 15, 2025 | Last updated: February 15, 2025 ...

Peru's cultural authorities surveyed some of the ancient Nazca Lines, searching for damage after recent rains. The Nazca Lines in southern Peru are pre-Columbian geoglyphs stretching across the ...

Japanese researchers from Yamagata University have announced the discovery of some 168 new geoglyphs in Peru's Nazca Lines. The team led by Professor Sakai Masato in collaboration with Peruvian ...

A central line is a long, thin, hollow tube that can be used to give chemotherapy or other treatments. Central lines are also called skin-tunnelled central venous catheters. Or you may hear them ...

Flying over the Nazca Lines in Peru is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that offers a glimpse into one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries. These enormous geoglyphs, etched into the arid ...