The 2024 County of Santa Barbara Crop & Livestock Report shows that strawberries remain the county’s top crop, contributing $860 million — over 40% of the total agricultural value.

In California, where the next “Big One” is an always-looming threat, some lessons learned from the 1925 Santa Barbara quake resonate even 100 years later, experts say.

The soap star, best known for his roles in “General Hospital,” “Santa Barbara” and Apple TV+’s “The Morning Show,” died on June 22, in Burbank, Calif.

Joe Marinelli, who played the cross-dressing mobster Bunny Tagliatti on Santa Barbara and a TV director on The Morning Show, has died at 68.

PG&E and Southern California Edison (SCE) could shut off power this weekend to certain customers in Santa Barbara County.

Santa Barbara County BOS adopts $1.69B budget Jennifer Best Contributing Writer Jun 18, 2025 Updated Jun 24, 2025 ...

Ruby the Red Panda is an adorable new resident at the Santa Barbara Zoo Keepers are hoping cubs may be in the future for Ruby and her habitat mate Raj.

An intoxicated driver and his passenger were arrested after their car crashed through the wall of an occupied Goleta home earlier this week, officials confirmed. It happened late Monday night, acco… ...

California Highway Patrol says that a tall tree fell in the Santa Cruz Mountains, blocking a road. The 60-foot tree fell on Highway 236 at Acorn Drive and moved wires across the road.

The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara is the nation’s largest community-based provider of college scholarships, having cumulatively awarded in excess of $167 million to some 64,000 county ...

An eight-story apartment tower proposed for behind the Santa Barbara Mission is moving closer to reality but still faces significant review under the ...

One of Santa Barbara’s Most Popular Restaurants Opens in a Cozy Corner of Carpinteria Bettina’s introduces Tina’s Pizza in Linden Square food and retail hall on May 22 ...