Santa Barbara Mother Speaks Out Years after Losing Fiancé in Triple Fatal Crash
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - It was a tragedy that changed a Santa Barbara woman’s life forever. A traffic accident killed her fiancé and landed her in the hospital. When asked what she was left with following the accident, Leslie Salazar replied: “Nothing… nothing.” The accident happened on August 9th, 2016, when...
Student-Led Donation Drive Raises 1,230 Lbs. Worth of Pet Food
Last month, student volunteer Ava Vasquez wrapped up her fourth annual pet food drive at Santa Barbara’s Vieja Valley Elementary, collecting an impressive 1,230 pounds worth of pet food donations for C.A.R.E.4Paws’ Companion Pet Assistance program. Vasquez has taken initiative to help the program by visiting the...
Truck Gets Stuck Under Los Patos Railroad Bridge in Santa Barbara
Early this morning, as it exited the southbound 101, a box truck wedged itself under the old railroad bridge on Los Patos Way near the Santa Barbara Zoo. The bridge has a maximum clearance of 12-feet-3-inches, according to the sign on the bridge. All scheduled trains in the area were...
Touring the 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake Aftermath
Read more of our Earthquake Centennial Cover Story. Though Santa Barbara had not been aware if the earthquake was isolated or part of a bigger California wallop, the rest of the state had a pretty good idea what had happened. The southbound Pickwick stage bus left the depot at 514...
Slice of Tiki: PizzaMan Dan brings pizza and tropical vibes together at 999 Pizza
PizzaMan Dan is the entrepreneur behind a chain of nine eponymous restaurants across Ventura County and one in Carpinteria, and now he’s entered the tiki bar business as well. Dan Collier is hard to miss as he’s driving between his establishments in one of his outrageous cars, including a...
Could Old Spanish Days Come Back to Earl Warren Showgrounds in the Future?
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — As the Earl Warren Showgrounds looks ahead to a 30-year master plan, it remains unclear whether that future includes the return of Old Spanish Days’ Fiesta Rodeo and Stock Horse Show. A 67-year partnership between the two organizations officially ended this year, with both now planning...
Elderly Driver Accidentally Crashes Into County Building
In a mid-afternoon accident on Tuesday, an elderly driver mistakenly drove over a curb and into the side of a building located at 3970 La Colina Road, home to the California Child Care Coordinators Association. Santa Barbara Police received the call at 2:17 p.m., and officers quickly responded to the...
Two More New Additions to the Santa Barbara Public Market
••• Revolver chef-owner Nick Bodden has launched a pop-up at the restaurant called Trixy the first two Mondays of each month. (The next two are July 7 and 14.) “It’s very much in the spirit of what Linden Hall would’ve been,” he says, referring to his Carpinteria restaurant that didn’t come to fruition. “A very neat...
40 Central Coast Farmworkers Detained by ICE in Workplace Raids
At least 40 farmworkers from Santa Maria, Ventura and Oxnard were taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers on Tuesday during workplace raids on agricultural fields. Erica Diaz, senior policy advocate for the Central Coast Alliance United for Sustainable Economy, said it was one of the...
Santa Barbara’s Old Earthquake Yields New Discoveries
Imagine you’ve arrived for your Monday morning shift down on State Street by the railroad tracks, and you’re looking toward the Pacific Ocean as the 6:40 a.m. sun lights the sky. There appears to be a large wave approaching from the channel, but suddenly, it’s the earth — not the sea — that begins to rise from the...
