Santa Barbara CA

On Thursday evening, May 7, 2026, the Ventura Education Partnership, better known as VEP, held its annual Celebration & Gratitude event at the Museum of Ventura County in downtown Ventura, highlighting its 2025-2026 grant recipients and donors. Established in 1988, VEP’s all-volunteer board meets monthly and raises fun

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The first Fiesta Dog Parade had tails wagging. Dogs and their two legged friends dressed in their fiesta finest to took part in the parade at the Paseo Nuevo Mall near the 800 block of State St. Old Spanish days partnered with Santa Barbara Humane to...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The Santa Barbara City College String & Wind Festival filled the Garvin Theatre with music. High school, junior high and elementary school bands and orchestras took part. The 16 groups participating included the Wilson High School Concert Band, the Goleta Valley Junior High School Advanced

Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews are responding to a vegetation fire reported after 5 p.m. Saturday, May 16, in the area of West Clark Avenue and Highway 1 in Orcutt. Firefighters are on scene working to contain the blaze, and motorists are urged to use caution, expect possible delays,...

An article in the local paper in May 1926 mentioned that the 160+ lots that had made up the Fellowship Colony on the Mesa were almost all sold. “The lands are situated in a protected place on the southerly slopes of the Mesa hills, commanding a splendid outlook on the channel.” – Santa Barbara Daily News, May 8, 1926.

Hold out a bowl full of bird feed at Ostrichland USA, and you’ll bring a swarm of ostriches sticking their long necks out a window and nipping at the container. The strong-willed birds living at the Central Coast roadside attraction are consistently fed, but beg like they’ve been hungry for decades. “They get territori

A Beloved Cultural Tradition Transforms The Mission Plaza And Opens Creative Pathways For New Generations Of Artists. For one weekend each year, the historic plaza at Old Mission Santa Barbara transforms asphalt into a living canvas of chalk masterpieces, an iconic community tradition that powers arts education in publ

Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews are responding to a high-angle rope rescue at the More Mesa Open Space area.

A paddle out at Refugio State Beach in Santa Barbara aims to bring attention to California coastline threats

Alejandra Navarro, a first-grade Dual Language Immersion teacher at Goleta Union School District’s El Camino Elementary School, was announced today as the 2027 Santa Barbara County Teacher of the Year. The Santa Barbara County Education Office shared the news during the May 14, 2026, County Board of Education meeting.