A former Santa Barbara teaching assistant pleaded guilty this week to one felony count of contacting a minor with intent to ...

After dropping the first set, The Dons trailed 24-20 in set two when a Saugus serving error cut the deficit to 24-21 and ...

SBCAG and the county have finished an environmental impact report for planned last-mile broadband installations.

A 36-year-old Santa Ynez man was killed Sunday evening in a solo motorcycle crash on Canada Este Road in the Santa Ynez ...

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Coming off a run to the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs last season the Dos Pueblos High flag football team opened up its 2025 campaign with a 50-7 rout of Westlake on ...

It’s certainly true of UC Santa Barbara’s Gaucho Racing, a club that has grown to more than 60 undergraduates, who take it upon themselves to build the iconic single-seat, open cockpit racecar and ...

Cenfire, a spinout from Goleta-based MEMS foundry Atomica, says it has a solution: a tiny solid-state switch that all but ...

The seventh annual Santa Barbara County Farm Day expands farm locations allowing greater access to the public.

The California Nature Art Museum (formerly the Wildling Museum) is thrilled to announce a very special celebration in honor ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Aug. 12, 2025) — U-Haul Co. of California is pleased to announce that Happy’s Collision Centersigned on as a U-Haul® neighborhood dealer to serve the Santa Barbara community.

“The difficulties, imposed by others, eventually led to an involuntary bankruptcy that resulted in the nonprofit having to ...