News Report

[Update]: A motorcyclist was killed in a DUI collision near Ortega Park on Saturday.

Search and Rescue responded to two trail rescues in the foothills on Friday.

Rescue personnel found the body of a missing diver in Gaviota Saturday morning.

[Update]: Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to a vehicle fire with a HazMat team in Santa Maria on Friday afternoon.

[Update]: Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Deputies are investigating two deaths in an apparent murder-suicide that took place at a Goleta motel Thursday morning.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday from Vandenberg.

A San Bernardino County man was found guilty of federal charges for paying for sex from an underage Santa Barbara County child that he met on the internet.

[Update]: Santa Barbara County firefighters extinguished a dryer fire that spread throughout an Orcutt home Sunday evening.

[Update]: A half-acre brush fire was extinguished near Neverland Ranch on Figueroa Mountain Road Sunday evening.

Montecito has been named 7th in the top ten most expensive zip codes in the United States.

A Hazmat team responded to Eling's Hall on UCSB's campus early Thursday morning for a suspected chlorine leak.

[Update]: Santa Barbara Police rescued a man from a structure fire near Spring and Ortega Streets on Santa Barbara's eastside.

[Update]: An accused DUI driver has been charged with gross vehicular manslaughter following a fatal head-on traffic collision at Carrillo and Miramonte in Santa Barbara.

Santa Barbara County Search & Rescue responded to a report of an overdue hiker on the Cold Spring trail on Sunday night.

[Update]: A rollover traffic collision had Highway 101 northbound at a standstill in Summerland. One lane has now opened. 

On this day in 2008, a wildfire started near a Montecito property known as the Tea Gardens.

Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to a landslide in Isla Vista on Friday morning.

[Update]: Three people sustained injuries from an apartment building fire in Old Town Goleta on Tuesday afternoon.

A group of cyclists was hit by a vehicle near Los Olivos on Sunday leaving one person seriously injured.

Two people were injured following a motorcycle and vehicle collision on Solomon Grade on Sunday.

The local chapter of the American Institute of Architects penned an open letter "emphatically" rejecting UC Santa Barbara's Munger Residence Hall proposal.

The Goleta City Council has directed its attorneys to file a lawsuit against UCSB for failing to provide student housing for its burgeoning student population.

Santa Barbara County firefighters extinguished an RV fire near the Highway 1 and Highway 101 interchange on Friday.

A body of a suspected homeless man was found in a Downtown Santa Barbara plaza on Friday morning.

[Update]: Santa Barbara Police are investigating a traffic collision that killed a pedestrian on Las Positas Thursday evening.

[Update]: The victim in a fatal rollover traffic collision on Highway 1 near Jalama Road last week has been identified.

[Update]: The election results are in and Randy Rowse will become Santa Barbara's new mayor.

After ten months of litigation, Stephen David Price reached a settlement with the City of Santa Barbara and individual officers over the summary destruction of Price’s property, which included a draft sequel to his published quizbook, scripts and screenplays

A body was found on the beach below the 1200 block of Shoreline Drive in Santa Barbara on Thursday morning.

Local families have started online fundraisers to pay for the funeral costs of victims from recent fatal traffic collisions.