Santa Barbara CA

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – As part of the annual benefit concert, One805LIVE!, country artist Trisha Yearwood will take the stage at Kevin Costner’s Oceanfront Estate in Santa Barbara. The concert takes place every year on Costner's estate to directly benefit First Responders across Santa Barbara County. A portion of...

When you can’t beat a problem no matter how hard you try, how much you spend, and how much you actually accomplish, maybe the best response is to change how you define success. That’s the message the Santa Barbara County supervisors received loud and clear from the county’s Community Services Department Tuesday on...

Happy Pride Month! In celebration of this important month of education and uplifting the community, S.Y.V. (Santa Ynez Valley) Pride will be hosting its fourth annual pride celebration throughout Santa Barbara’s beautiful wine country. Events will run June 1-30, and the main event, the annual S.Y.V. Pride Parade and...

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has reportedly sent 32 personnel from its Sheriff’s Response and Special Enforcement Teams to Los Angeles.

When spaceflight enthusiasts think about catching a rocket launch, the first place to come to mind, more than likely, is Florida . The Sunshine State is brimming with a near-constant schedule of crewed and uncrewed launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, both located on...

A box truck hit the train overcrossing on Los Patos Way Tuesday morning. After 7:00 p.m., CHP and authorities responded to the Highway 101 southbound offramp and found the 30-foot moving truck stuck underneath the bridge. City inspector arrived on the scene and the area was closed for a period...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The family of Elizabeth Hamel is once again reaching out to the public for their assistance in figuring out what exactly happened to the UC Santa Barbara freshman back in February. On the night of Feb. 14th around 10:26pm, 18-year-old Elizabeth Hamel was found with major head injuries outside...

Eastbound Highway 154 near Highway 246 is closed to traffic as a result of a vehicle crash and brush fire.

A long-gone California pastime was catching abalone off the coast, but in 2001, white abalone became the first marine invertebrate to be added to the endangered species list, and soon after, all commercial and recreational capture of abalone became outlawed. But just a quick drive up to Gaviota, one can relive the...

VENTURA, Calif. – Ventura Police detectives from the Major Crimes unit arrested Christian Hillariet for the 2023 homicide of William Thompson after finding new evidence on June 6. Ventura Police officers initially received word on November 5, 2023, about a possible dead man along the railroad tracks in the 6600 block...