Santa Barbara CA

If you consider a visit to a haberdasher prior to bar-hopping, you’d want a top hat before sashaying into The Lion’s Tale, and a pith helmet before slinking into Jaguar Moon. That’s relevant sartorial information as both establishments just celebrated their first-year anniversaries. The former, gracing Coast Village...

Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a Carpinteria man Tuesday afternoon following a brief barricade situation at Birnam Wood Golf Club. On January 27, 2026, deputies were called to the golf course after reports of a man threatening people while armed with a side-handled baton. When deputies arrived, they...

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, joined Watch Duty Co-founder and CEO John Mills for a visit to local fire stations in Santa Barbara. The two spent time at the fire stations, where firefighters shared what goes into emergency response, Watch Duty shared in a Facebook post. Prince Harry and Mills...

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...

Good morning, check out what stories we are following on Daybreak today: California’s TRUTH Act, signed into law in 2016...

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 work on homelessness solutions after Jan. 21 forum addressed mental health response, police training, riverbed encampments.

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.

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...

Good morning, Central Coast, here’s what we are tracking on Daybreak: Truth Act forum today: The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors...