A small plane crashed just off the 101 Freeway near Santa Barbara Airport Wednesday afternoon, leaving two people in critical ...

The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA issued an updated flood advisory at 8:54 p.m. on Sunday. Flooding caused by excessive rainfall ...

The saga of Santa Barbara County's cannabis ordinance continues. The Santa Barbara County Planning Commission met on ...

They say you can’t put a price tag on beauty, but maybe you can.       A recent report from the Land Trust for Santa Barbara ...

Residents of Santa Barbara County can see how exceptionally beautiful their home is, but how do you quantify that level of ...

A small private aircraft crashed in an open field just north of the Storke Road offramp on Highway 101 Wednesday afternoon, ...

A small plane crashed near northbound Highway 101 in Goleta Wednesday afternoon, Santa Barbara County authorities said.

Nonprofit Unite to Light and the James S. Bower Foundation partner with Dragon Q Energy to install 10 PowerPoles across Santa ...

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Unity Shoppe— a food distribution center based in Santa Barbara— is expanding its services to the Lompoc community.

On Friday, the Ojai Raptor Center released a rehabilitated burrowing owl into UCSB's Coil Oil Point open space.

GOLETA, Calif. - A small plane crashed off a Goleta freeway on Wednesday afternoon. The crash was first reported around 2:20 ...