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Meet the four-footed heroes and Grand Marshals of Downtown Santa Barbara's Holiday Parade.

Congressman Salud Carbajal announced the winners of the 2018 Congressional App Challenge as four students from Santa Barbara High School.

The Fire Relief Fund multi-platform fundraising event raised over $1,173,905 for United Way’s Southern California Disaster Relief Fund.

The Santa Barbara High School Computer Science Academy's innovative tech curriculum won grants from Best Buy and LogMeIn.

The Sheriff’s Office reports two Good Samaritans helped rescue a disabled woman who was trapped in a Vandenberg Village apartment fire on Tuesday.

Nine residents of the retirement community Samarkand took off in vintage WWII-style aircraft with help from a local company and non-profit.

Local community leaders, philanthropists, and residents sat down on October 5 for the United Way of Santa Barbara County’s 22nd Annual Red Feather Ball.

The annual Cancer Center's Walk/Run raised over $175,000 in funds with the event taking place in Montecito on Sunday.

Marking its 35th year, CenCal Health now serves 1 in 4 Santa Barbara County residents and is recognized by Harvard for innovating the U.S. Medicaid Program.

On October 4th and 5th, Partners in Education and the Youth Innovation Club unveiled a collaboration with one main goal in mind: to get students excited about science, specifically their science projects. 

A reader comes across a man leaving a trail of roses as he prepares to propose to his girlfriend.

Local residents David and Anna Grotenhuis were honored at the 17th annual Santa Barbara Rescue Mission Bayou Open.

The 34th annual Coastal Cleanup Day picked up over 3,530 lbs. of trash and 971 lbs. of recyclables in Santa Barbara County last month.

A local teenager celebrated his fourteenth birthday by making a generous donation to the Santa Barbara Humane Society.

A local after-school program offers students an engaging head start in engineering, construction, and architecture fields.

More than 1,100 volunteers picked up paintbrushes, shovels and whatever other tools they needed for United Way's 27th Annual Day of Caring.

Ventura County Community Foundation and Gene Haas Foundation Award ThomasFireHelp with a new grant to match help with need

The 6th Annual Heroes of Hospice at The Biltmore's Coral Casino on September 12 attracted a huge crowd of supporters to honor those being recognized in 2018.

Leigh Cashman walked 16 miles throughout Santa Barbara in one day to raise money and awareness for the Alzheimer's Association.

An edhat reader was walking along Shoreline Beach and suddenly walked into a wedding in progress.

A local Eagle Scout helped the Santa Barbara Beekeepers Association build 20 beehive stands.

A couple digging through the remnants of their home that burned in the Holiday Fire re-enacted their proposal after finding their wedding ring.

Santa Barbara MTD held the 4th Annual Youth Art Poster Contest this spring in Grades 1 through 6 with a theme of “Superhero Buses”.

A Girl Scout recently completed her Silver Award project, a butterfly garden at the Goleta Depot.

An edhat reader spotted a stolen bicycle from a video on edhat and helped find the owner to reclaim it. 

The Jack Johnson and Friends Benefit for the Community concert raised $200,000 for the United Way Thomas and Fire Flood Fund, with 100 % of the donations going to support those in need.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff K-9 Aco is praised by the department for his ongoing six years of great work.

Santa Barbara Sheriff Deputies helped Animal Control rescue ducklings who fell down a storm drain.

A local non-profit was instrumental in matching a car donor with a deserving military veteran.

A hive of bees was rescued from the roofline of The Paradise Cafe on Wednesday.