The smell of red oak smoke and sizzling meat will fill the air this weekend as Santa Maria’s signature event, the Santa Maria BBQ Festival, returns for its seventh year. The event takes place ...

ROME — The Santa Maria Maggiore basilica, which Pope Francis chose as his final resting place, is a fifth-century church located in the center of Rome that already holds the tombs of seven popes.

He will be the 1st pontiff in more than a century not to be buried in St Peter's Basilica Nuns walk past Santa Maria Maggiore Basilica, where the Pope will be buried after his funeral. AFP The ...

But Francis will be the first pontiff in more than a century to be buried outside the Vatican, as he requested a “simple” tomb a couple of miles away in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore ...

Santa Maria has hired a finance director, the third department leader vacancy filled in recent months by the new city manager. Since arriving in late 2024, Rowlands has filled vacancies for three ...

It's the sweetest time of the year in the Santa Maria Valley. That's because the Santa Maria Valley Strawberry Festival kicks off Friday, April 25, with a three-day weekend community event at the ...

Every time Pope Francis came back to Rome after a trip abroad, he made sure to pay a visit to the church of Santa Maria Maggiore. It was a fitting choice: Francis was particularly devoted to the ...

He also asked that his “last earthly journey” end at the “very ancient Marian shrine,” of Santa Maria Maggiore, or St. Mary Major, in Rome. With St. Peter’s, St. John Lateran ...

Wood-grilling tri-tip brings rich, smoky flavor in this easy grilled steak recipe, while allowing plenty of time for the meat to become meltingly tender over the coals. Frank Ostini is renowned as ...

The quartet seeking the Santa Maria Elks Rodeo Queen crown this year are, from left, Samantha McDonald, sponsored by the Children’s Resource and Referral of Santa Barbara County; Brianna Hill ...