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The Northern Santa Barbara County Athletic Round Table (NSBCART) honored 36 high school senior student athletes during its annual athlete recognition banquet held at the Santa Maria Elks Lodge on Monday night. Cabrillo’s Asher Jones won the overall Male Athlete of the Year award while Lompoc’s Tara Terrones won overall

A fast-moving vegetation fire near Foothill Road and Kirschenmann Road in the Cuyama Valley triggered evacuation orders Tuesday afternoon, May 19, as firefighters mounted a second-alarm response. Santa Barbara County Fire reported the fire at 4:03 p.m., with Engine 27 first on scene. The agency said the “Foothill Incid

Santa Barbara police officers arrested a man Saturday on suspicion of trying to steal a golf club from a local store by hiding it in his clothes and was confronted by staff. Jason Schnell, 33, was arrested on charges of second-degree robbery and providing a false name to a peace officer after he reportedly attempted to

The fire began after a man's sailboat crashed into the rocks on the island, according to the Coast Guard. He reportedly fired emergency flares to signal for help before he was rescued.

Maybe It Was The Roses Festival Sets Oceanfront Grateful Dead Celebration in Ventura. With the Pacific Ocean as its backdrop and the spirit of the Grateful Dead floating through the salt air, Maybe It Was The Roses Music Festival will bring three days of music, community, art, and celebration to Ventura, California, fr

The U.S. Space Force has cleared two overnight-to-morning launch operations at Vandenberg this week: a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying 24 Starlink satellites on Tuesday evening, May 19, followed by an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile test in the early hours of Wednesday, May 20. SpaceX Starlink 17-42 l

There’s a new plan in the works for two long-vacant buildings anchoring Paseo Nuevo in downtown Santa Barbara, in a shift that could bring up to 600 employees to the empty Macy’s building and 112 units of housing to the Nordstrom property, if negotiations work out over the next few weeks.

Cal OES is funding extra resources for Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties ahead of a weekend with elevated fire weather.

There are 563 missing children in California listed with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) as of today. The missing children span from 1957 through 2026. Some are Jane Does, and John Does.

Summer nights at the Santa Barbara Zoo are getting the big-screen treatment. The Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) and the Santa Barbara Zoo are teaming up to present Zoovies, a three-part outdoor family film series on the Zoo’s Hilltop, supported by the Nora McNeely Hurley Foundation. The lineup...