Santa Barbara County was named one of the most generous communities in the country in GoFundMe’s newly released 2025 Year in ...

Rail service from Goleta to San Luis Obispo remains suspended as Union Pacific repairs damaged tracks, with no estimated ...

Following an ICE vehicle, observers found themselves at CHP headquarters in Santa Maria, where they were stopped until ICE ...

The event will bring community members together to prune more than 1,500 rose bushes spread across A.C. Postel Memorial Rose ...

Farther northwest, Lake Cachuma has risen after weeks of steady rain, prompting proactive releases to balance reservoir ...

Zoey is dog-social and enjoys the company of other pups, but she considers her toys very high-value—she’ll do best with ...

Shortly after 7:30 a.m. on January 6, police issued a Nixle alert warning that the outage “may impact the ability to call 911 ...

Lou Cannon, the eminent biographer of Ronald Reagan, and a caring, civic-minded, and consequential citizen of Santa Barbara, died on December 12 at ...

Judge Colleen Sterne has been bumped from the city’s case to get John Thyne III and his partners, who are nearly a year ...

It is a logical and laterally expressive forum for an artist whose skills have extended into life as a painter, muralist, ...

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Damaging winds and gusts of up to 60 mph on Thursday threaten to blow down trees and power lines on heels of the past weeks’ ...