News Report

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.

Firefighters knocked down a fire at the car wash behind the Chevron gas station on Fairview Ave early Friday evening.

A traffic collision at Chapala and Carrillo Streets left one person with major injuries on Thursday afternoon.

The recently demoted principal of San Marcos High School has filed a lawsuit against the Santa Barbara Unified School District as a new interim principal was selected.

A ruptured gas line forced an area of Solvang to be evacuated on Wednesday afternoon.

Students and Isla Vista residents remember the six lives that were lost four years ago during a horrific killing spree.

[Update]: A missing second-year UC Santa Barbara student has reportedly been found deceased by the Search and Rescue Team.

Vandenberg Air Force Base with SpaceX successfully launched five Iridium NEXT satellites on Tuesday afternoon.

Two people were pronounced dead at the scene of a vehicle collision on Highway 166 near New Cuyama Sunday afternoon.

[Update]: Three people were rescued off Gaviota State Beach after a catamaran overturned. 

Two people sustained critical injuries after a head-on traffic collision on Highway 1 near Guadalupe on Friday evening.