Santa Barbara CA

Discussion: The same upper-level low that brought a lightning show to Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo County last night will move northward toward the projected forecast zones.

Santa Maria will get help paying for a park ranger dedicated to keeping the Santa Maria Riverbed clean of encampments and trash. The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors approved funding of $42,864 on Tuesday to help fund the role. The approved amount is only half, leaving the rest to the city to provide.

On the fourth day of the murder trial for Elvis Alberto Lopez, accused in the death of 3-year-old Mila Solis, Dr. Manual Montez, a pathologist with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Bureau, described the child’s injury as comparable to a massive fall or a car crash.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT)The Santa Barbara City Council voted to deny an appeal, filed on behalf of UNITE HERE Local 11, of the Planning Commission's approval to the 633 East Cabrillo Blvd. Hotel Expansion Project. The vote, taken without Oscar Gutierrez in attendance, was unanimous. Hospitality workers with union...

Wilson Phillips , Kenny Loggins , David Pack of Ambrosia and more are set to perform at a charity concert celebrating the music of Brian Wilson and The Beach Boys on Saturday, Sept. 27 at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara. The 20 Best Beach Boys Songs (Staff Picks) Wilson Phillips features two of Wilson’s...

Santa Barbara police responded to Leadbetter Beach late Sunday morning after reports of a disturbance involving two men armed with unusual weapons. According to a statement from the Santa Barbara Police Department, dispatchers received multiple calls around 11:51 a.m. on September 21 about an altercation in which one...

Santa Barbara County Executive Officer Mona Miyasato’s long-simmering impatience with Sheriff Bill Brown’s multimillion-dollar cost overruns for four of the past five years bubbled politely over as she notified the supervisors this Tuesday that she has assigned the county’s auditor to examine why the sheriff’s...

Reader Glenn J. let me know that Madam Lu Chinese Restaurant at 3524 State Street is closing permanently at the end of September. “I have been running this restaurant for almost three decades and business slowed significantly this year,” says owner/founder Mei-Jung Lu. “This is not happening to just Madam Lu. I have...

LOS ANGELES - Don't put that umbrella away just yet!. According to the National Weather Service, there is an increasing chance for showers and thunderstorms this week thanks to the arrival of monsoon moisture in the area. Timeline:. Monday. Expect a warm and dry day. There's a big swirl of...

Eight of the 104 retired statewide judges who just signed onto a “Declaration of Judicial Independence” in response to mounting criticism — accompanied in some cases by “dangerous and personal attacks on individual judges”— are from Santa Barbara County. While the author of the...