Or maybe you’re visiting from out of town, staying along the waterfront, when a large wave hits the beach right before the ...

“With genealogy, we’re really big on family history and those stories,” said the society’s outreach coordinator Holly Snyder, ...

Though Santa Barbara had not been aware if the earthquake was isolated or part of a bigger California wallop, the rest of the ...

Santa Barbara history buff Betsy J. Green is the author of Way Back When: Santa Barbara in 1925, which showcases a number of ...

Buildings in Santa Barbara and Goleta served as unintended targets in two separate vehicle collisions on June 9 and 10. One, ...

The good news is that the cop was wearing a bulletproof vest. No one, miraculously, got killed. But the cops went batshit.

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The Summer Solstice Parade this year is dedicated to Eric Lassen, who was the architect of community celebration and joy in ...

Early this morning, as it exited the southbound 101, a box truck wedged itself under the old railroad bridge on Los Patos Way ...

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The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is actively responding to concerns from business owners facing the possibility of immigration enforcement agents ...

Andy passed away after an extraordinarily lived three-quarters of century here on this wild ride called Planet Earth. In a collection of stories called “My Backstory,” Andy looked at his life through ...