Crystal Bermudez is your community news reporter covering northern Santa Barbara County, including the Santa Maria, Lompoc and Santa Ynez valleys. After two decades of vision, persistence, and ...

Tribal Chairman Kenneth Kahn, Assemblymember Gregg Hart, Chumash Museum Board Chairwoman Kathleen Marshall, and state Sen. Monique Limón pose for a picture with resolutions presented for the ...

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians will host California-style Native American singing, dancing, food, and games at the 19th annual Santa Ynez Chumash Culture Day, taking place from noon to 9 p.m.

SANTA YNEZ, Calif., May 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has announced that the highly anticipated Santa Ynez Chumash Museum and Cultural Center will open to the public ...

I recently had the good fortune to get a preview tour of the new Chumash museum, which opens to the public May 15. It is, in a word, spectacular. The museum challenges and will transform the way that ...

A screen of fog lifted to reveal a bright blue stretch of the Pacific Ocean on Monday — unveiling what will soon be the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary. The Northern Chumash Tribal Council ...

More than 1,000 Chumash artifacts were collected during excavation work at the site of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. Excavations took place for the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural ...

SANTA YNEZ, CA — November 14, 2025 — The City of Buellton formally recognized Native American Heritage Month during its Nov. 13 City Council meeting by signing a proclamation honoring the Santa Ynez ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Sara Prince / For The Times) Around 1915, the last known Chumash basket maker, Candelaria Valenzuela, died in Ventura County, and ...

When America was gaining independence from Great Britain, the Chumash were losing culture, language and life.

For more than 10,000 years, Native Americans have been living along California’s central coast, an area of breathtaking beauty with stunning turquoise waters rich in biodiversity. Now, in the first ...

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has been awarded a $1,426,000 federal grant to support plans for the construction of an additional 8.7 miles of contiguous multi-use path that provides the tribe ...