Santa Barbara CA

CARPINTERIA, CA — March 9, 2026 – On the afternoon of March 7, a Santa Barbara County Fire Truck went suddenly missing from. the Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Station. The response was swift, and within minutes after the theft of the station’s Ford F-250, 59-year- old Valencia resident Frank...

Before he moved to town in 2016, Dr. Kevin Casey served as a Navy trauma surgeon during the U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, when he’s not performing 10-hour surgeries or making his rounds, Casey and his team of billers at Santa Barbara Vascular Specialists do battle with American insurance carriers over...

Friends of Carpinterian and Santa Barbara County employee Sheila Hess have created a GoFundMe to support Hess as she recovers from a broken ankle, which she sustained on Jan. 31 during a hike along the Cold Spring Trail. Hess and a group of her friends decided to hike up the...

Santa Barbara County officials say drug overdose deaths have declined significantly since reaching a high point just a few years ago. During a presentation this week to the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office reported overdose deaths fell from 158 in 2023 to 96 in...

Change is in the wind in the Lompoc Valley. You can feel it in Old Town and in the conversations happening at kitchen tables and community meetings across North County. And soon, if the people behind one of Santa Barbara County’s most ambitious cultural projects have anything to say about it, you’ll be able to feel...

Residents, business owners, and other members of the Montecito community have launched a petition urging the United States Postal Service (USPS) to reconsider plans to close the post office at the Montecito Country Mart. Operating for more than 40 years, the Montecito Country Mart Post Office is scheduled to close...

When Sylvia Barnard dreams, watch out. Her dreams have a relentless habit of coming true. For a long time now, Barnard has dreamt about launching a food truck operation that sells food raised and prepared by the clients living in one of many Good Samaritan homeless shelters run by Barnard.

Long before I met Suzanne, I was uneasy with the phrase “homeless person.” It seemed to flatten too many lives into one shame-colored noun. The older words — vagrant, hobo, derelict, transient, drifter — have mostly fallen out of favor. But “homeless” remains, clinical and expansive, at once a description and a...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – Emergency crews helped after a three-car crash on Miramonte Drive in Santa Barbara just after 5:30 p.m. Thursday. Your News Channel arrived to find a black Porsche convertible near a curb, a white car that had hit a tree blocking the sidewalk, and another white Honda in the middle of the...

A City Council discussion about the city’s response to federal immigration enforcement — which included a statement from Santa Barbara Police Chief Kelly Gordon reaffirming the department’s priority for community policing — also served to highlight how the presence of aggressive ICE enforcement in Santa Barbara has...