Santa Barbara County Supervisor Laura Capps’ Office says roughly one third of county employees commute dozens of miles just ...

Fire crews helped an injured rock climber off Gibraltar Road and east of Gibraltar Rock just before 5:00 p.m. Sunday ...

The City of Santa Barbara did not offer a lease agreement to Cookie Plug after its sublease was terminated by Metropolitan Theatre.

Environmental groups see the spawning of around 100 newly hatched trout in Arroyo Hondo Creek as a critical milestone in ...

A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge late last week denied the California Coastal Commission's request for a temporary ...

The Santa Maria Post Office was dedicated Monday morning to a former mayor, saluting Larry Lavagnino’s service to the city he ...

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A 16.5-million-year-old "unusually complete" baleen whale fossil was found off the Santa Barbara Coast. While discovering the ...

On April 1st, 2025 the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the Racial Equity Grant of the County of Santa Barbara funding recommendations made by the Fund for Santa Barbara.

George Yatchisin George Yatchisin is slated to be Santa Barbara’s next Poet Laureate, the County of Arts and Culture, in partnership with ...

The unemployment rate in each of the tri-counties saw slight declines in March, a sigh of relief for the Central Coast as a whole after a very turbulent February. According to the latest data provided ...

This year’s theme ‘Our Power, Our Planet’ with CEC Honoring Environmental Heroes Dr. Leah Stokes and Charlie Eckberg ...