The County of Santa Barbara is channeling its inner Oprah starting this week. On Friday, the county’s sustainability division announced its “Green Appliance Giveaway,” during which it will hand out ...

Dateline: The Necklace” on NBC4 on Friday at 9 p.m. will explore the disappearance of private investigator and former police officer Taylor Wright, whose life was complicated by her ...

Santa Barbara County fire chief Mark Hartwig plans to retire at the end of the year, concluding a distinguished career in ...

Suffolk Police are looking for two missing teens, who they believe ran away together. 17-year-old Barbara Ford and ...

Since 2012, closed roadways and construction trucks have been a staple along Highway 101 in Santa Barbara. Now, all that work is nearing the finish line after $134 million in state funding has been ...

John Martin may not be a household name, but to anyone interested in contemporary literature of the past 50 or 60 years he is ...

Trout has been limited to DH duty since returning from the injured list in late May and hadn’t done drills in the outfield in ...

KCLU, Ventura County's public radio station, will lose 12% of its revenue due to the elimination of funds for the Corporation ...

Signing bonuses for the selections through competitive balance round A in the 2025 Major League Baseball amateur draft: 1, Washington Nationals, Eli Willits, SS, Fort Cobb-Broxton H.S., Fort Cobb, ...

For every hero there is always a villain to counteract all their heroism. While DC has some of the best heroines in all of comics, the same can be said for their villainesses. With almost all of them ...

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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. - Skies will remain clear Saturday as temperatures rise to their warmest for this week. High 60s and low to mid 70s are ...