CenCal CEO Marina Owen heads to Sacramento to share her thoughts on Newsom’s revised budget plan and its impact on the Central Coast’s 38,000 “Unsatisfactory Immigration Status” patients.

A coalition is pushing state lawmakers to extend CalSHAPE, reopen applications, and ensure funds for HVAC upgrades reach the ...

Santa Barbara County has among the highest arrest rates in California, a draft planning document released by the Department of Behavioral Wellness shows. The county’s adult arrest rate is 3,214 per ...

Twenty-Four Blackbirds founder Michael Orlando is successfully growing cacao, but looking for help to ramp up the project; ...

Santa Barbara High’s Improbable Postseason Run Continues After 12-5 Victory Over Paramount. The Dons Have Made the Most of ...

The fire has closed the island to visitors, prompted the evacuation of 11 Channel Islands National Park Staff, and destroyed three structures while threatening other historic buildings and rare and ...

A 19-year-old was booked in Santa Barbara County jail on suspicion of starting the half-acre blaze, which triggered an ...

Members of the Santa Barbara Police Department’s co-response team were given the Thomas Guerry Award for Superior Service for ...

A large effort is underway to save the island’s historic structures, housing, campgrounds, and pier as the “human-caused” ...

Fiesta’s 2026 El Presidente, Colin Hayward, has named Father Larry the Inaugural Poet Laureate of Fiesta. I had the pleasure of meeting Father Larry at last year’s Fiesta Pequ ...

With the help of the Trump administration, Sable Offshore moves the Environmental Defense Center’s legal challenge to federal ...

Emily Morici tossed a one-hitter and went three for four at the plate, and senior Anastasia Brunner went three for four with a lead-off homer to lead Dos Pueblos to a 5-1 second-round CIF-SS Division ...