Santa Barbara CA

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) — Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Yolanda Yturralde is excited for students to get the help they need. “This is an opportunity for older adults to finally receive services and not have to worry about insurance,” said Yturralde, who is the Mental Health Cancer at Santa Barbara City...

The City of Ventura Fire Department announced the promotion of Battalion Chief Jeremy Henderson to Assistant Fire Chief, effective Saturday, February 28. He will oversee all department operations and personnel, focusing on emergency response, workforce management, and organizational readiness.

Having passed their final inspection, Chase Restaurant at 1012 State Street is preparing to reopen following a 16-month closure. The longtime Italian restaurant shut its doors on October 13, 2024, after sustaining extensive smoke damage. Since then, owner Georges Bitar and his team have been working through...

A three-vehicle collision reported at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 24, is causing significant traffic on Highway 1 south of Orcutt, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department and the California Highway Patrol. County Fire initially reported a multi-vehicle crash on Highway 1/SR-135 near Graciosa Road and...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) - The proliferation of illegal food vendors in Santa Barbara County has been a challenge for government leaders for several years, but new plans could bring the situation under control. The county is discussing more enforcement combined with an outreach to the public. In that...

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) – CHP officers arrested a drunk driver for DUI after he gave major injuries to a 27-year-old from Ventura at the Telephone Road on-ramp on Friday just before 11:00 p.m. The 36-year-old drunk driver travelled through the intersection of Telephone Road and Main Street before hitting the...

Jurors began deliberating the fate of a Georgia man charged with killing a Santa Maria woman in 1988 after DNA connected him to the victim and her home, although his attorney argued that it didn’t prove that Aloysius Winthrop James committed the crime. James, 58, of Georgia has been...

On February 23, 2026, around 2:09 p.m., officers found a stolen vehicle in a parking lot in the 3300 block of East Main St. When police tried to stop the car, the driver rammed a patrol vehicle with two officers inside and fled. The chase went through a residential area near Midtown Ventura and ended when the suspect...

The Santa Barbara Independent released an eight-minute-long video of an arrest by federal immigration agents that took place in Santa Barbara last Friday. The video, shared by an anonymous source, shows agents arresting a man identified by the Independent as 27-year-old Jack Randmaa, after he appeared to approach the...

The two Santa Barbara County teens arrested Monday after allegedly ramming a Ventura police patrol car are also the suspects in last week’s stabbing at Santa Barbara City College, according to the Santa Barbara Police Department. Bryan Isaac Ramirez, 18, of Santa Barbara, and a 17-year-old male from Santa...