A Santa Maria berry grower has paid $30,000 in an unfair labor practices settlement to compensate employees who were allegedly retaliated against during a work stoppage last spring, according to an ...

Following weeks of protests and negotiations, employees at Rancho Laguna Farms in Santa Maria have been granted their second pay raise in a month, bringing the wage per box of strawberries to $2.10, ...

Construction is underway on a $53 million upgrade of the Laguna County Sanitation District Wastewater Reclamation Plant that services Orcutt and rural Santa Maria and will serve the new Northern ...