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 …
Multiple lawsuits in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties accuse utility Southern California Edison of negligent activity that caused the Thomas Fire and ultimately led to numerous deaths in the Montecito mudslides. Read More …
The principal of Santa Ynez Valley Union High School has skirted jail time and, at least for now, kept his job despite pleading no contest to DUI. [KSBY] Last October, Mark Read More …
Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s detectives caught three men driving through the Montecito disaster area on Tuesday in a possibly stolen vehicle carrying a large amount of ammunition and a spent handgun Read More …
Months prior to the massive Thomas Fire that ravaged Montecito and surrounding areas, the Whittier Fire burned 18,430 acres in Santa Barbara County. Investigators have now determined that the Whittier Fire Read More …
Driving the wrong way and at times double the speed limit, a 24-year-old woman hit seven vehicles and damaged nine cars Saturday afternoon in Los Olivos. Officers then arrested her for Read More …