Nearly four months after 18-year-old UC Santa Barbara freshman Liz Hamel died in an apparent fall from a third floor breezeway at a campus dorm, her family is pleading for answers as UC police ...

A court decision has forced Sable Offshore Corp. to delay controversial plans to restart offshore oil operations along Santa Barbara County's coastline.

Queue the “Pomp and Circumstance” and collect your regalia. Commencement season is back, baby, and UC Santa Barbara is ready to roll. More than 7,400 students — a combination of both undergraduate and ...

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.

Search crews have located the body of 22-year-old Tanner Prentiss, a student at UC Santa Barbara who disappeared over the weekend in Big Bear Lake.

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Deltopia, an unsanctioned street festival in Isla Vista, typically occurs on the first weekend after UCSB spring break, which in 2025 is April 4-6.

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

A community effort to restore kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel is kicking off this spring. Decades ago, a marine heatwave wiped out vibrant kelp forests near San Miguel Island. While ocean ...

In Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, conditions are ideal for a wildfire to rapidly spread upon ignition, according to an expert from the UC Santa Barbara Wildfire Resilience Initiative. “Right now ...

A homeless man walks on South Miller Street near East Jones Street in Santa Maria after speaking with volunteers before sunrise during the Santa Barbara County Homeless Point-in-Time Count in 2020.

Santa Barbara County hotels are showing increases in revenue and occupancy compared to 2023.