This guide celebrates Santa Barbara’s longstanding restaurants that have fed locals and tourists for decades, along with recent additions that have emerged as excellent places to dine.

As local food banks face USDA funding shortages, the Santa Barbara Unified School District is filling in the gaps.

LVMH is selling its only US hotel, the El Encanto in Santa Barbara, California, to a partnership of brothers Justin and Tyler Mateen and Culver Capital for $82.2 million. The sale price per room ...

Santa Barbara County has directed all seven local fire departments and medical 911 calls to the new Regional Fire Communications Center (RFCC) for full operation as of June 30.

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.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Hundreds gathered outside the Santa Barbara Courthouse Tuesday as The FUND for Santa Barbara hosted a press conference and rally in response to a surge in federal ...

“My husband, our two kids, and two dogs all share this cozy little bungalow in the heart of Santa Barbara,” begins Hannah Mestyanek of the 800-square-foot home the family has rented for two ...

Considered Curbside Coffee has added a 30-year-old school bus turned mobile café that is designed with both customer flow and barista comfort in mind. It can be found around Santa Barbara six ...

Santa Barbara, CA, May 20, 2025 – At 6:44 am on June 29, 1925, a powerful earthquake devastated Santa Barbara, taking the lives of eleven people and destroying or damaging much of downtown. It was a ...

Sable Offshore Corp. has restarted offshore oil production 10 years after the operation was shuttered following a major oil spill along Santa Barbara's coast.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A 36-year-old Santa Barbara woman was arrested for driving under the influence after a fatal collision with a bicyclist on State Street Sunday evening.