The 300-pound head of a sphinx that emerged from the dunes on California’s central coast traces its roots to Hollywood, not Egypt. The artifact is now on display at a little-known archaeology site and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A century ago, Moses came to the Central Coast. That's when legendary Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille and his film crew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These days, coyotes, mountain lions and even, once, a black bear, roam through a former oil field at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes ...

Long ago, in the year of our Lord 1923, director Cecil B. DeMille organized the construction of the set for his epic, silent film The Ten Commandments. Because this was the “golden age” of Hollywood, ...

The Dunes Center offers education about the intricacies of a sea otter skeleton and its links to California’s history. (Donna Polizzi photo) If you’re looking for a day trip that is unlike any other, ...

The Guadalupe-Nipomo Dune Center, in Guadalupe promotes the conservation and restoration of the dunes ecosystem. (J.C. Corliss / Noozhawk photo) In the northwestern-most corner of Santa Barbara County ...

GUADALUPE, Calif. – It's been over one month since access reopened to the Guadalupe dunes. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held in March. City access to dunes was closed for over one year, after the ...

Jacob is your community news reporter covering the Santa Maria Valley. Since this winter’s rains, the roadway leading up to the Rancho Guadalupe Dunes has been ravaged by miles of washed-out pavement.

Thirty-three years ago, Peter Brosnan heard a story that seemed too crazy to be true: buried somewhere along California’s rugged Central Coast, beneath acres of sand dunes, lay the remains of a lost ...