News Report

Santa Barbara County Supervisors voted Tuesday to restrict marijuana farming on agriculturally zoned land with 20 or fewer acres.

[Update]: A 76-year-old Santa Barbara man sustained major injuries after crashing his vehicle over the side of the roadway near Highway 154.

[Update]: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office releases the name of the bicyclist that was struck by a vehicle and killed on Modoc Road Friday.

Vice President Mike Pence will visit Vandenberg Air Force Base on Wednesday to discuss space launch activities.

A GoFundMe donation website has been created for the family of Carlin Dunne, the local motorcyclist who died in a race collision on June 30.

[Update]: A 7.1-magnitude earthquake hit near Ridgecrest around 8:19 p.m. Friday, just one day after a 6.4-magnitude quake struck in the same area.

Community members are asking for donations to help pay for the medical bills of an unidentified dog that was found on the beach below the Douglas Family Preserve.

Santa Barbara County firefighters have contained a brush fire near Santa Maria at 48.2 acres. 

[Update]: A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck in San Bernadino County causing shockwaves felt in Santa Barbara.

[Update]: Two motorists were injured in a head-on traffic collision in Santa Ynez early Monday evening.

Santa Barbara-based professional motorcyclist and local business owner Carlin Dunne died in a crash during a race in Colorado Springs on Sunday morning.

Celebrities Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are among a group of investors that acquired Santa Barbara-based Bragg Live Food Products.

A Santa Barbara realtor and Australian native is currently in a Melbourne prison for allegedly evading taxes on luxury home sales. 

The plans for a new operations building at the Montecito Sanitary District – a project 15 years in the making – are suddenly in limbo, a potential casualty of Montecito’s divisive water wars.

A recent opinion article explains how banning plastic straws might be a distraction as the local plastic ban is set to begin July 1.

Samy's Camera will close their State Street location on Saturday after serving the local area for over 20 years.

A major debris flow that's at least 1,000 years old was found on Montecito Creek, and that’s reassuring, UC Santa Barbara geologist says.

Santa Barbara County Fire crews are responding to a vegetation fire near Buellton in the 1900 block of W. Highway 246.

[Update]: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's assistance for information on a bank robbery in Solvang Thursday morning. 

Santa Barbara County officials have opened the door to host the world's largest marijuana farm, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Santa Barbara County Fire Department responded to a brush fire in the 1200 Block of Alamo Pintado Road on Wednesday morning.

[Update]: A fatal traffic collision occurred on Highway 101 just north of Los Carneros early Monday morning.

Local residents and Miramar Resort have engaged in productive conversations after a video showed resort staff kicking local families off the beach.

[Update]: The Santa Barbara Police Department have identified the victim of the June 1 stabbing homicide as 29-year-old Alberto Torres and arrested five suspects.

[Update]: The Santa Barbara County District Attorney announced that Omar Leon has been charged with murder in a domestic violence incident on Tuesday.

Four people suffered injuries in a vehicle collision involving three cars on Highway 1 Wednesday morning.

UC Santa Barbara's plan to reorganize the university library staff has caused a petition to be signed by the majority of academic departments.

A head-on collision involving two vehicles injured four people on Harris Grade Road on Monday afternoon.

Elias Argyropoulos of Santa Barbara-based Prima Ventures Corporation pleaded guilty to wire fraud in fraud schemes that promised investors stock in Facebook and Twitter

[Update]: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office is investigating an assault that caused life-threatening injuries in Old Town Goleta on Sunday morning.