A 33-year-old Santa Barbara man is facing multiple felony charges related to human trafficking and the sexual abuse of at ...

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The annual Santa Barbara County Veterans Stand Down will take place on Oct. 25, 2025 and veterans are encouraged to sign-up ...

Clark calls Antigonick “an effort to participate in a timeless, ongoing scholastic conversation about the Sophocles play and ...

California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside the attorneys general of Massachusetts and Washington, led a coalition of 20 ...

Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) is excited to announce that its newly upgraded Permitted ...

This fall, the Lompoc Public Library System is thrilled to announce its participation in Neighborhood Forest's Free ...

Public health officials are in a full freak-out mode of their own. The county could risk losing all its federal health ...

In an effort to encourage the redevelopment of underused buildings downtown, the Santa Barbara City Council adopted a new policy for adaptive reuse projects, without the usual requirement for ...

The City of Goleta reminds you to join Mayor Paula Perotte and Councilmember Luz Reyes-Martín (District 1) for our final ...