Santa Barbara CA

Amid an unusually wet winter, a record-breaking tide put some streets of Marin County under 3 to 4 feet of water.

Marian Regional Medical Center has welcomed its first baby of the year — Jorge Damian Toribio Santos, a healthy baby boy, born at 2:35 a.m. Jan. 1, 2026. Jorge weighed in at 6 pounds, 2 ounces. Nurses at Marian Regional Medical Center’s Family Birthing Center presented the family with...

Santa Barbara City Fire crews responded to a confirmed structure fire Friday morning at the El Encanto Hotel. Crews arrived on scene at 800 Alvarado Place around 9:08 a.m. to find smoke coming from the roof of one of the detached cottages on site, officials said. They were able to...

A man was found dead after being swept into a creek in Santa Barbara County during a rainstorm Saturday. Just before noon, family members reported to Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies that a man had been swept into the rushing waters of the Maria Ygnacio Creek. The man was driving near the 1100 block of […]

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Highway 192 is closed in both directions between Mission Canyon Road and Mountain Drive just above the foothills in Santa Barbara, according to CalTrans. Highway 135 also received flooding, prompting CalTrans to announce its closure for eight miles due to flooding, one mile north of Los...

Continuing rains have led to mudslides, flooding, road closures and power outages in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties as a second atmospheric river storm moves through the Central Coast. Current road closures and flooding:. Closure of Highway 101 from Highway 1 to Winchester Canyon Road in Goleta. Flooding...

CORTE MADERA, Calif. (AP) — Heavy rain and high tides believed to be the most severe in two decades caused flooding in parts of Northern California on Saturday, prompting road closures and rescues of people trapped in cars. Roadways through a 15-mile (24-kilometer) stretch from the Sausalito area to...

LOS ANGELES - California's wet winter continued Saturday as rain fell across the Southland, grounding flights coming in and out of Santa Barbara Airport and causing extensive road closures along the coast. The soggy weather is expected to continue through Tuesday with the heaviest downfalls tapering off by mid-day...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Three people received medical care after their car crashed into a tree, then caught fire on Highway 101 north of Highway 154, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. All three patients needed ambulance transport after extrication from the car. One patient had...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - A sailboat you may have seen before Christmas on a Santa Barbara beach is now gone. This large sailboat came ashore to the east of Stearns Wharf. The mast hit a protective fence and the dredging pipe while it was bobbing back and forth for days. Earlier this week a The post Wrecked...