Santa Barbara CA

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - It will be mostly dry Friday with a few light showers passing through. More rain arrives overnight into Saturday morning. Another round of rain moves through Sunday morning and afternoon. Light showers may linger Monday. Starting around next Wednesday or Thursday, our rain chances drop...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif, (KEYT) - After ringing in the new year, many Santa Barbara locals are heading out to eat close to home. Cafés and restaurants across the city are seeing steady New Year’s Day crowds. At Shoreline Café along the waterfront, tables filled quickly with diners enjoying the holiday. The restaurant...

The Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District announces the retirement of Fire Chief Robert Kovach. Chief Kovach’s retirement marks the culmination of over forty years of dedicated service in the fire service, all of which have been devoted to serving the residents and communities of Santa Barbara County,...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Santa Barbara’s Polar Dip is set to go on as planned, despite rain in the forecast. According to organizer, Hugh Margerum, said more than 250 people have already signed waivers to officially participate in the New Year’s Day event. The National Weather Service has...

A vehicle went approximately 150 feet down an embankment along Highway 154, prompting a coordinated technical rescue operation by fire crews, Santa Barbara County Fire Captain Scott Safechuck stated. The incident occurred around 5:10 p.m. on Tuesday, December 30, approximately a quarter-mile east of Windy Gap,...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) Most people celebrating the New Year with champagne will pop the cork and pour it into flutes, but some will open their bubbly with a saber. But even experienced folks said it isn't always easy. It may take a couple of tries to pour your...

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital welcomed their first baby of 2026. New parents Jessica and Laurence welcomed daughter Isla at 4:41 a.m. this morning.

Chris Amendt operates a nonprofit dedicated to protecting monarch butterfly habitat and was stunned to see numerous trees in a documented Ventura overwintering site chopped down late last year. She previously urged protection for the grove at the Nov. 4 Ventura City Council meeting, which city officials said were...

As we prepare to usher in the new year, KSBY is looking back at some of the Central Coast's most defining moments of 2025.

MONTECITO, Calif. (KEYT) Montecito Community Connect on social media helped return something special to a Montecito mudslide survivor and author . "Just the other day I happened to be on Facebook and I was scanning through and I saw a post from Montecito Connect, and that was set up after the mudslide for people to...