No news was good news for environmentalists in Santa Barbara Superior Court on Monday, as they encountered no opposition to their bid to...

Judge Colleen Sterne handed local environmental groups a major win on Friday, granting them legal standing to challenge a controversial,...

Every major block of native chaparral on the South Coast mountainside has burned in this century, with three exceptions: The Gaviota...

Five years ago, the Board of Supervisors rolled out a study that showed the widespread extent of poverty in Santa Barbara County,...

Santa Barbara’s Sacramento lawmakers demanded answers and chewed out bureaucrats on Friday, after state tax agents swept down State...

It has been called the soul of Montecito – a healing place amid the oak woodlands of San Ysidro Creek, where people of all faiths could...

The late, great Hiram Johnson is best known as the California governor who brought forth the state’s renowned system of ballot...

In the June 5 primary, Senator Dianne Feinstein stomped Democratic rival and state Senator Kevin de León amid a 35-candidate field, 44 to...

A coalition of environmental groups filed court papers on Monday in an 11th hour effort to overturn a controversial legal settlement that...

As most of the South Coast braces for the next fire, Montecito is focused on the next flood. An advisory flood map released in June by...

When the weather cooled down last week, offering relief from record 100-degree heat, County Fire Chief Eric Peterson hiked into the...

About 1,500 people staged a somber march through downtown Santa Barbara on Saturday, as hundreds of thousands across the nation also...

A deadline looms to express opposition and outrage over a settlement state lawyers have quietly negotiated to allow wealthy landowners to...

Nearly 50 years ago, when seven inches of rain fell in the mountains above Montecito in 12 hours, triggering “avalanches” in the canyons,...

The new Federal Emergency Management Agency recovery map for Montecito and the Carpinteria Valley, dramatically expanding the flood plain...

About 400 demonstrators staged a spirited and peaceful protest in downtown Santa Barbara on Wednesday night, condemning Donald Trump's...

Residents grilled county officials about the latest hazard designations for their embattled community on Thursday night, as the rollout...

Kathryn Barnes joins this week’s Newsmakers TV panel, which digs into the results of the June 5 primary and offers analysis of what the...

Amid the Kabuki dance of toting up provisional ballots, the candidates who actually put themselves and their names on the line by now...

“I am not a member of any organized political party,” Will Rogers, the iconic Renaissance man of vaudeville, famously said. “I am a...