New Leaders For Santa Barbara County Association Of Governments’ 60th Anniversary
ORCUTT, Calif. (KEYT) - A new year means new leadership for the Santa Barbara County Association Of Governments, or SBCAG. It’s marking 60 years of collaboration. Fourth district supervisor Bob Nelson has been unanimously selected as SBCAG’s 2026 chairman. “We've significantly spent local dollars on the 101 widening...
Goleta names Lt. Jarrett Morris with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office as next...
GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – On Thursday, the City of Goleta introduced its new Chief of Police Services, Jarrett Morris, currently a Lieutenant with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office. Lt. Morris will formally become the new Chief of Police Services during the Jan. 20 City Council meeting shared the...
Pedestrian Hospitalized After Being Struck by Vehicle in Santa Barbara
A pedestrian was taken to the hospital Wednesday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle on State Street in Santa Barbara. Emergency personnel were dispatched shortly after 4:30 p.m. to the incident on State Street at Los Olivos Street, according to Sgt. Kyle Crooks of the Santa Barbara Police Department.
Collin Harmon: How Black Dog Trivia Turned a Whim Into Santa Barbara’s Favorite Weekly...
Founded in 2021, Black Dog Trivia has grown from a spontaneous opportunity into one of Santa Barbara’s most recognizable community-driven events. Built on humor, inclusivity and a genuine desire to connect people, the trivia series has become a weekly ritual for locals across the city. The idea for Black...
Coast Guard searching for potential boat in distress in the Santa Barbara Channel
CHANNEL ISLANDS, Calif. (KEYT) – The U.S. Coast Guard is actively searching for a reported boat in distress in the Santa Barbara Channel Thursday. An alert community member spotted a boat in distress while onshore north of Ventura near Dulah and called dispatchers around 11:39 a.m. Thursday shared the U.S. Coast...
Rental assistance cutbacks, protests, and volunteers needed
Good morning, here are the local stories we are tracking on Daybreak: Museum burglary arrest: An investigation is ongoing after a burglary...
City of Santa Barbara Gets Judge Off City’s Case Against Harbor Restaurant
Attorneys for Santa Barbara City Hall exercised their peremptory challenge rights to bump Judge Colleen Sterne off the city’s case against John Thyne III, a high-profile attorney, real estate broker, and one of the owners of the Harbor Restaurant, one of the two mothership-sized dining operations located on Stearns...
Ventura Unified School District creates school closure advisory committee to start in March
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – On Thursday, the Ventura Unified School District announced the creation of a School Closures Advisory Committee to make recommendations about potential campus closures in the 2027-2028 school year. The new committee is expected to begin meeting in March of this year and send...
Survivors recall the night deadly mudslides changed everything
When disaster strikes without warning, the impact can change lives forever. In Buried Alive, the newest episode of Very Local’s “Weathering the Storm” series, viewers are taken back to the devastating mudslides that swept through Montecito, California. In January 2018, a massive wall of mud and debris...
California woman sentenced to prison for deadly 113 mph crash on 101 Freeway
A 24-year-old Oxnard woman was sentenced to two years in state prison for causing a fatal crash in 2023 while driving more than 110 mph on the 101 Freeway in Santa Barbara County, officials announced Thursday. The deadly incident occurred Aug. 13, 2023, when Ricki Newton was allegedly racing a friend at 113 mph on […]
