ICE Agents Confront Santa Barbara Eastside Residents with Pepper Spray, Santa Barbara Police Respond...
Video Shows ICE Agents Shoving and Pepper Spraying Woman in the Face at Point Blank Range. U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) agents confronted residents of Santa Barbara’s Eastside neighborhood on Wednesday morning, January 28. Around 7:00 a.m., residents discovered ICE agents in vehicles patrolling their...
TRUTH Act explained, homeless count, and Mid-State fair theme
Good morning, check out what stories we are following on Daybreak today: California’s TRUTH Act, signed into law in 2016...
Fight over Naples Housing Project Returns to Santa Barbara County Planning Commission on Wednesday
Environmental groups are still fighting tooth and nail to keep a proposed seaside residence on the Gaviota Coast from being built. They will hash it out during the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission’s meeting on January 28. At issue is the County Zoning Administrator’s approval from February 10, 2025, of a...
Lompoc officials address homelessness concerns following public safety forum
Lompoc officials work on homelessness solutions after Jan. 21 forum addressed mental health response, police training, riverbed encampments.
Central Coast man charged with child molestation
A 79-year-old Central Coast man has been arrested on charges that he molested children at a child care facility. In 2019, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s investigators received reports that sexual abuse had occurred at an in-home child care facility on the 800 block of Emerald Way in Santa Maria.
Monarch butterfly habitat partially destroyed in Ventura
VENTURA, Calif. — The monarch butterfly migration is a remarkable journey. Some travel up to 3,000 miles to reach their winter homes. The western monarchs are taking winter shelter along the California coast right now, but these butterflies are currently under threat. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports...
Local flight delays, parking charges, and resident honored
Good morning, Central Coast, here’s what we are tracking on Daybreak: Truth Act forum today: The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors...
Ventura Fire Department interim chief gets permanent job
The city of Ventura didn’t have to look far for its new fire chief. Interim Chief Kris McDonald will take the permanent job leading the Ventura Fire Department on Jan. 31, according to a Jan. 26 news release from the city of Ventura . McDonald, who joined the Ventura Fire Department in 2002 as a lateral firefighter...
SpaceX plans rocket launch in California. See Vandenberg schedule
The sixth and seventh rocket launches of 2026 in California are coming up within a week – both SpaceX missions to deploy commercial Starlink internet satellites . SpaceX got its year off to a hot start from the Vandenberg Space Force Base , where billionaire Elon Musk's commercial spaceflight company is projected to...
Patina Pretty Inspiration Over the Years
As a longtime follower of Brooke Giannetti and all things Velvet and Linen, it has been a pleasure to follow her journey as she and Steve left Patina Farm in Ojai for a meadow in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee. Lets revisit the loveliness of that unforgettable mountain homestead. Photos; Design:...
