On Monday, November 18, a 19-year-old man reportedly leaped off the bluffs on the 6700 block of Del Playa Drive in Isla Vista ...

From Guadalupe to Carpinteria, Montecito, the Channel Islands, and more, there’s no shortage of great spots to enjoy nature.

UC Santa Barbara sociology professor Cate Taylor coauthors newly published research that studied women who grew up in areas ...

Two young girls were killed in a single-vehicle crash on Wednesday, and major injuries were reported in a multi-vehicle ...

Bird flu has been spreading among dairy workers in California’s Central Valley, jumping from cows to people. A new suspected ...

It’s well known that cargo vessels and whales don’t mix; whale-ship collisions are one of the leading causes of death for the ...

Under the bright lights of the Brawlin’ Betties ’ home track at Earl Warren Showgrounds, two roller derby teams jammed, ...

This was the route of the first Southern Pacific Railroad across the Goleta Valley from Santa Barbara to the end of the track at a turntable and station on Ellwood Station Road to the west. The “curvy ...

Grief can be a funny thing. When I heard Claire Bidwell Smith talk at Godmothers last month, the author and grief therapist ...

Casual, affordable, beachside eats are much harder to come by in Santa Barbara than they should be, but the purr-fectly ...

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