Santa Barbara CA

The number of unpermitted street food vendors in Santa Barbara County has increased in recent years, and a new Grand Jury report contends many of them are operating unsafely. The jurors are calling for more enforcement action. The Santa Barbara County Grand Jury took field trips to see the problem...

Carpinteria Family School parents had their fears confirmed Tuesday night when the Carpinteria Unified School District eliminated the second- and third-grade class and shared that the school most likely will close for good after the next school year. The district had cut the kindergarten and first-grade class last...

There’s a little slice of Denmark nestled in California’s Santa Ynez Valley where the pastries are so divine, they should be classified as controlled substances. Olsen’s Danish Village Bakery in Solvang isn’t just a bakery – it’s a portal to Copenhagen that happens to make cream puffs worth committing minor crimes for.

More details about the death of Oscar Omar Hernandez, the 13-year-old North Hollywood boy whose body was found off a road in Oxnard, have been revealed. Hernandez died due to acute ethanol intoxication, according to the Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office. Mario Edgardo Garcia Aquino, 43, who had already been...

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved $240,000 in emergency funding from cannabis tax revenues to expand mental health services at the Immigrant Legal Defense Center.

More than 65% of workers on Santa Barbara County’s South Coast cannot afford to live there, according to a new report from the 2024-25 Santa Barbara County Civil Grand Jury. Many people commute from outside the area. “Teachers, nurses, firefighters and hospitality workers cannot afford to live in the...

Country star Ryan Bingham brought out a behatted kind of audience to the Santa Barbara Bowl recently, along with a Southern sound (as in the American South and Southern California) and also a pair of local angles with career-goosing after-effects. In a sense, Bingham’s broader public profile began with his critically...

“Circle of Peace” isn’t just a Ziggy Marley song or the name of his tour, which stops Saturday, June 28, at Surfer’s Point Live at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. The show is part of a weekend of music — dubbed Roots & Boots — that includes the Boots & Brews country music festival on June 29.

••• Any new sibling of local favorite Corazón Cocina is worthy of attention, and Corazón Cocina Sur at Linden Square is no exception. Some first impressions…. 1) I went for lunch twice on weekdays, and the setting is lovely. I would’ve liked to dine at the Corazón counter, but the restaurant’s music and the complex’s...

GOLETA, Calif. — Emergency vehicles filled the parking lot at Direct Relief headquarters in Goleta on Wednesday, but it wasn’t due to a crisis. Various emergency agencies gathered for a large-scale disaster response training event aimed at improving readiness and coordination in the face of future disasters. The...