News Report

Santa Barbara County Firefighters have stopped the forward progress of a brush fire off Harris Grade Road.

[Update]: Caltrans has updated the closure to both directions of Highway 101 at Cat Canyon Road, as requested by the California Highway Patrol.

“Self-reporting” by growers has led to lost tax revenues, board says, but it will take time to come up with a fairer system.

Future “grows” will have to be “compatible” with the neighborhood, county supervisors say.

Some South Coast residents felt a 4.3 magnitude earthquake early Thursday morning with its epicenter in Trona.

Santa Maria City firefighters are battling a structure fire that has spread to multiple units in a condo complex Thursday morning.

Parents and caregivers who face a shortage should call their healthcare providers first to help them navigate formula options when supplies are scarce.

Asm. Steve Bennett joined five other California Democratic lawmakers to advance gun violence prevention packages in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas school shooting.

Firefighters have contained a 48-acre fire near the intersection of Highway 166 and Bull Canyon Road east of Santa Maria on Tuesday.

The Department of Justice reports a former Oxnard man has pled guilty to federal charges for enticing a 10-year-old girl into sending sexually explicit images of herself through Instagram.

Multiple Jif peanut butter products are being recalled due to an outbreak of salmonella linked to a Kentucky manufacturing facility.

Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to a roadside brush fire on Highway 101 near Los Alamos on Monday.

[Update]: The identity of a woman who fell from a Montecito Cliff earlier this month has been released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office.

[Update]: Santa Barbara County firefighters responded to a structure fire in an Isla Vistan apartment Friday night.

[Update]: Santa Barbara Junior High parents were notified the school was locked down last week and now it's been confirmed to be due to a parent confrontation.

[Update]: Santa Barbara County firefighters rescued an injured hiker off Tunnel Trail Saturday afternoon and new reports state the hiker has passed away.

Scanner Andrew has created a comprehensive map of brush fires in the Santa Barbara South Coast from the past few years.

Over the weekend, Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network experienced an unusually high influx of brown pelican patients

[Warning: Graphic Photos] Time may be running out for an orphaned black bear cub on the loose here after its mother was killed in a hit-and-run crash Friday night.

[Update]: Forward progress is stopped on a vegetation fire near Andrew Murray Vineyards on Zaca Station Road.

The owner of a Santa Barbara Westside party store has been arrested for alleged sexual assault of customers of his unlicensed massage therapy business.

After 7 years of litigation, a $230 million class-action settlement has been reached between Plains All American Pipeline and those in the fishing industry and shoreline residents in Santa Barbara.

Over 1,000 people joined together in Santa Barbara on Saturday to join the nationwide "Bans Off Our Bodies: Rally for Abortion Rights.”

Santa Barbara County firefighters are battling another brush fire, this one is located west of Santa Maria.

[Update]: Firefighters have stopped the forward progress of a brush fire in the foothills above Goleta that sparked late Saturday afternoon.

[Update]: Firefighters extinguished a small spot fire in the 500 block of Barker Pass Road in Montecito Saturday morning.

The League of Women Voters issues a statement on the cancellation of the Superintendent Forum and asserts Lozano didn't sign the release form.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for the Starlink mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Friday afternoon.

A midday meeting on Thursday on the tracks just off the freeway in Montecito was the scene of a multi-agency effort to coordinate the cleanup of homeless encampments in the city and county. 

[Update]: One person sustained burn injuries from a structure fire in downtown Santa Barbara Friday morning.