News Report

[Update]: Two men were arrested on Saturday for allegedly installing credit card skimmers at local gas pumps.

The Coast Guard rescued three people Friday who were treading water for nearly 90 minutes after their vessel capsized near Anacapa Island.

[Update]: The Coast Guard is searching for two overdue fishermen near Santa Cruz Island Wednesday.

The Vons location in La Cumbre Plaza will close this September to make way for Bristol Farms.

A 5-year-old boy struck by a passing vehicle in Lompoc was airlifted to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital on Monday afternoon.

Last Tuesday, the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance Committee voted to ban the sale and use of styrofoam in the city. This Tuesday is the final vote. 

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper has been featured in Vanity Fair's article about the Coastkeeper Alliance.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested 162 undocumented immigrants during a three-day enforcement operation in Southern California that targeted those with previous criminal convictions.

A woman sustained major injuries after her vehicle rolled over on Highway 101 southbound near the Nojoqui Grade.

[Update]: Santa Barbara Sheriff's Detectives are investigating an armed robbery that took place at a Carpinteria marijuana cultivation facility.

Coast Guard helicopter and boat crews rescued six people from a sinking vessel 12 miles southeast of Channel Islands Harbor, Sunday morning.

One person was airlifted to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after two motorcycles collided off E. Camino Cielo Road on Sunday.

Santa Barbara County firefighters contained a brush fire to 1.3 acres after the property owner sparked the fire using a weed whipper.

Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to a structure fire in Santa Ynez that displaced a family on Friday evening.

A local Trader Joe's grocery store was robbed at gunpoint this past Sunday evening, just months after eight other stores were hit in Southern California.

Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley charged Keith Kevin Nelson with one count of attempted murder after a Milpas stabbing.

A 21-year-old Goleta man was arrested for DUI after traveling the wrong way on SR-217 in Goleta caused two injuries early Friday morning.

The ballots are in and political winners have been named. Find out who won in our local primary elections.

[Update]: A Santa Barbara man was arrested on Monday after barricading himself inside a home on Padaro Lane in Carpinteria.

A traffic collision killed a 23-year-old woman from Mission Viejo on Highway 101 near Olive Mill early Saturday morning.

Starting Saturday, all phone calls will need to use 10 digits as the new 820 area code joins the 805.

Sears Holdings announced it will close 15 Kmart stores and 48 Sears stores in 2018, but local stores will remain open.

[Update]: An outdoor grease fire spread to a Mexican restaurant in Lompoc on Friday afternoon.

Firefighters contained a two-acre brush fire along Highway 101 near Los Alamos on Friday afternoon.

A Coast Guard helicopter crew medically evacuated a 32-year-old man from a sailboat south of Santa Cruz Island Thursday evening.

What happened on the deadliest section of Montecito Creek?

A 30-year-old Lompoc Man has been charged with murder after stabbing another man at a dog park last month.

UC Santa Barbara scientists scour the creeks of Montecito for fast-vanishing clues to the 1/9 debris flow

All Starbucks coffee shops will close at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday for sensitivity training, except for a select few.

A 27-year-old woman was airlifted to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital after a vehicle collision in Solvang Friday afternoon.