Santa Barbara CA

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...

Happy 2026! Here are the top stories from Daybreak this New Year’s morning: Solvang rings in 2026 early: The town of Solvang welcomed...

Small Plane Crashes Near Highway 101 in Goleta, Two Seriously Injured. A small plane crash along Highway 101 north of the Storke Road offramp left a shocking scene for those traveling through the Goleta area back in January. Two professional pilots employed by filmmaker Robert Zemeckis were seriously injured in the...

THOSE REGAL RED-TILED ROOFS... lend Santa Barbara much of their visual flair, but if you had to land on another hue that adds oomph to the American Riviera, you just might alight upon "blue," the color of the sky. If you were feeling especially poetic, you might even break out an "azure," for Santa Barbara, brilliant...

There is a lot to be said for people in the world who really do choose to go above and beyond what they’re expected to do. This is especially so if it’s for someone you don’t even know to begin with. A woman from Santa Barbara, California, shared her story about how the District Attorney’s office’s White Elephant...