The utility Southern California Edison has released a statement acknowledging that its equipment may have helped sparked the Thomas Fire that devastated Ventura and Santa Barbara counties late last year and led to the deadly Montecito mudslides in early 2018. Read More …
A 50-year-old San Luis Obispo man suffered life-threatening injuries after driving off of Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County Wednesday morning.
Shortly after 11 a.m., the man was driving a Ford F-150 on Highway 154 about three miles away from Highway 101. Read More …
A man who was reportedly sitting on railroad tracks near Guadalupe and slowly getting up while a train was approaching was struck and killed on Monday. Read More …
An oil tanker overturned on Highway 1 near Orcutt Sunday night, causing the highway to be closed in the area.
The truck overturned at about 10 p.m. and landed on its side blocking the highway Read More …
An Amtrak train collided with a tanker truck Friday morning south of Guadalupe, causing long delays for passengers traveling by rail on the Central Coast.
At about 7:40 a.m., Train 774 collided with a tractor trailer truck that was reportedly hauling fertilizer. Read More …
ExxonMobil is seeking permission from Santa Barbara County to restart its offshore operations and to then truck the oil and gas it produces to the Phillips 66 Nipomo Mesa refinery, as well as along Highway 166 to a location in Kern County. Read More …
Almost forty years after the suspect known as the Original Night Stalker is believed to have committed the first of three horrific crimes in Santa Barbara County near Goleta, officers arrested 72-year-old Joseph James DeAngelo. Read More …
On the second day of a storm that is pounding the Central Coast, two stretches of Highway 1 in San Luis Obispo County are closed Wednesday morning as rockslides, mudslides and Read More …
San Luis Obispo County is expected to received four to eight inches of rain between Tuesday and Thursday, and similar totals are predicted in Santa Barbara County, prompting fresh evacuation warnings. Read More …
Less than two months following the deadly mudslides in Montecito, parts of southern Santa Barbara County are again under mandatory evacuation orders.
In advance of a storm expected to hit Santa Barbara County Thursday night, officials ordered mandatory evacuations for locations below the Thomas, Whittier and Sherpa fire burn areas. Read More …