This excellent stretch of California coastline is home to some of the best surfing in the country and a campground that puts ...

CARPINTERIA Calif. (KEYT) - The California Avocado Festival is back in Carpinteria with tens of thousands expected to attend. The streets of Carpinteria are turning into one big celebration for the ...

Camping with friends sounds relaxing—until you add kids to the mix. Coordinating a weekend away with multiple families isn’t so much a serene escape to nature as it is a logistical puzzle fueled by ...

Island Brewing Company and the City of Carpinteria were hit with a nuisance lawsuit on Sept. 8 in California Superior Court for Santa Barbara County over alleged violations of municipal noise ...

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Some state parks are closing their campgrounds before the end of the 2025 season. The parks offer camping in Michigan's outdoors with some amenities. This year's closures are due to planned ...

Federal officials announced that around 200 workers were arrested in two raids on cannabis farms in Southern California on Thursday — likely the largest single-day immigration crackdown in the state’s ...

The city of Carpinteria approved three motions Thursday evening at a special meeting in the wake of immigration raids in the area. The city council approved a proclamation detailing the city's ...

Congressman Salud Carbajal joins a crowd protesting a federal raid on a Carpinteria business Thursday, July 10, 2025. He said he showed up to observe the operation, which he called “overkill and ...

EDITOR NOTE: This article has been updated to reflect the increase in available funding from $5,000 to $10,000 CARPINTERIA, Calif. – The Carpinteria City Council held an emergency meeting Thursday ...

Summer is here, and for many Americans, the great outdoors is calling. Camping website the Dyrt released its annual ranking of the best campgrounds in America, and five California campgrounds were ...

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