Santa Barbara CA

This story was originally published by the Santa Barbara News-Press. At about 6:42 a.m. 100 years ago today, the residents of Santa Barbara were violently tossed around — some thrown out of their beds — by the heaving of a mighty earthquake. The shaking lasted 18 seconds. On...

Back in April 2022, when the plan was announced to develop the 27.53-acre site at 5669 and 5885 Carpinteria Avenue with a hotel and workforce housing, Carpinterians reacted with horror, insisting that the bluffs must remain undeveloped. Personally, I thought if the land was going to get built on, as the zoning...

James Workman said he is thankful to be living at the Valentine Road Apartments, the former Ventura La Quinta Inn that has been converted into housing for city residents who are either homeless or at risk of it. Workman, 62, moved into the apartments at 5818 Valentine Road , with his doberman pinscher, Sargent, a...

Did you know that Goleta Beach once had two piers at the same time? Seems crazy, right? Well there’s a logical reason. And they didn’t last for long. The pier on the left was only temporary. In the early 1960s Goleta was growing very fast. Completion of Lake...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Fire Department rescued a 26-year-old hiker from Cathedral Peak Trail due to dehydration just before 2:15 p.m. Saturday. The SBCFD treated the man and airlifted him via helicopter to Cottage Hospital, marking the second heat-related hiking incident of the day. The...

After nearly five months of construction, on June 18, 1925, the new Hotel Californian opened its doors at the corner of State and Mason streets in downtown Santa Barbara. Built of brick and composition stone, the $300,000 hotel offered 100 rooms with fresh or salt-water baths, one of only two hotels on the Pacific...

An inmate, AAO, died at Marian Regional Medical Center 19 days after he fell from standing height and struck his head on the floor of Santa Barbara County’s Northern Branch Jail due to an apparent seizure. This seizure occurred approximately seven hours after he arrived at jail on August 29, 2024.

Happy Friday, here are some events happening across the Central Coast. Officials urge safe celebrations this Fourth of July...

This weekend marks the 100th anniversary of the massive June 29, 1925 earthquake that rocked Santa Barbara. Some special events are taking place to commemorate it. The estimated magnitude 6.3 quake destroyed much of downtown Santa Barbara and killed 11 people. As the city rebuilt, it adopted the Spanish style...

Santa Barbara County District Attorney John T. Savrnoch announced that following a jury trial, Edgar Bribiescapuga, a 32-year-old resident of Santa Maria, California, was sentenced to 26 years in State Prison. Judge Dandona handed down the sentence following jury verdicts related to personally discharging a firearm...