The Santa Maria Times is a daily paper covering Santa Maria, Orcutt, Guadalupe, Nipomo, and surrounding areas on California’s Central Coast.
Reports say reporters from Noozhawk and KEYT were detained near a private missile-operators training facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of a groundbreaking ceremony. A Space Launch Delta 30 official calls the incident a breakdown in communication; detainees were released after about 30 minutes, with no injuries reported.