News Report

The Santa Barbara City Council voted to widen the center fire lane between parklets on the State Street Promenade.

A 3.5 magnitude earthquake struck near the Grapevine early Thursday morning.

Owners cite family’s ‘competing business interests’

County supervisors favor a 180-acre cap

[Update]: A motorcyclist became trapped underneath a vehicle after hitting a parked car in Goleta on Tuesday night.

[Update]: The Sheriff's Office has released the identity of the victim in the fatal traffic collision in the Santa Maria Valley last week.

[Update]: A Santa Maria man was arrested after assaulting one victim and four Santa Barbara Police Officers in the downtown area Thursday.

Two alleged Santa Barbara gang members have been arrested for a drive-by shooting that injured a juvenile on the Westside last September.

Santa Barbara County Firefighters responded to a barn fire in Orcutt on Saturday.

A tsunami warning for southern California beaches Saturday morning brought out surfers to catch slightly larger waves.

The Santa Barbara Public Market and an adjacent building have sold to two local families.

Virgin Orbit announces they successfully deployed into orbit all 7 customer satellites onboard its LauncherOne rocket during Thursday's Above the Clouds mission.

An online fundraiser has been created for the wife of the man who was killed in a traffic collision a few days after Christmas.

A Carpinteria woman has been arrested as an accessory to murder in the 2021 deaths of Angel Castillo and Omar Montiel-Hernandez on Santa Barbara's Eastside.

A loaded gun was found in the carry-on luggage of a traveler at Santa Barbara Airport on Sunday evening.

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department is sad to announce the passing of Firefighter Paramedic Joseph (Joey) DeAnda.

[Update]: Two people sustained injuries following a traffic collision over a cliff near Lompoc on Sunday afternoon.

[Update]: Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a Goleta man that fled from a traffic stop in Santa Barbara and was tracked to Lompoc. 

[Update]: Santa Barbara Police arrested a burglary suspect that was barricaded inside a home on San Martin Way on Thursday afternoon.

[Update]: No injuries were reported in a residential kitchen fire in Goleta late Tuesday night.

[Update]: A suspected vehicle thief was arrested at gunpoint inside the bathroom of a Goleta shopping center on Tuesday afternoon.

It's a new year with new laws and here are just a few that go into effect today on issues from surprise medical bills to extending cocktails to-go for customers.

Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to a structure fire in the 2700 block of Foothill Road early Saturday.

After 18 years, the owner of Santa Barbara Arts in the La Arcada Plaza is closing up shop and retiring.

[Update]: The victim who was struck and killed by a train near Modoc has been identified.

A fire in a Goleta residential community's carport damaged vehicles early Friday morning.

[Update]: Four people were injured in a traffic collision on Highway 101 northbound near Los Olivos late Friday.

[Update]: A motorist has died following a traffic collision near the Mission Street exit on Highway 101 southbound Wednesday.

A house fire killed two people and injured one in Santa Maria on Sunday evening.

[Update]: An apartment complex in Goleta was damaged by a "tornado-like" weather event.