At 2:52 a.m. on Thursday, the NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA issued a wind advisory valid from 3 p.m. until Friday 3 a.m. for ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 3:24 p.m. in Santa Barbara County. Forbush Fire has been burning on federal land managed ...

Police are looking for a Santa Barbara man who disappeared from the Big Bear Lake area just after midnight Friday.

Orange, Santa Barbara and San Diego counties are soon to surpass the $100,000 annual salary threshold for a low-income single ...

Multiple Memorial Day ceremonies are scheduled to take place throughout Santa Barbara County on Monday to remember fallen military members and honor their ...

Ten years to the day after the 2015 Refugio State Beach oil spill, Texas-based Sable Offshore Corp. announced it had ...

Danyel Raymond Avalos was arrested Thursday on suspicion of attempted murder. Police said he was also wanted by the Sheriff's ...

There’s no sugarcoating this. What you are about to read is grim, one of the grimmest Best of Bill columns I’ve written in a long time. But, as I tell my ...

A 24-year-old Santa Barbara man was arrested for attempted murder after a domestic violence incident in the 1100 block of Hutash ...

The county’s Public Health director and officer respond to a Grand Jury report on department’s level of preparedness.

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A moment of silence was held by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors for three teens from Dos Pueblos High killed in ...