UCSB Theatre and Dance students showcased their choreography skills through the Kinetic Lab showcase this past week.

Alex Padilla is the first Latino to represent California in the U.S. Senate. FBI agents handcuffed him after he interrupted a ...

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Buildings in Santa Barbara and Goleta served as unintended targets in two separate vehicle collisions on June 9 and 10. One, ...

Though Santa Barbara had not been aware if the earthquake was isolated or part of a bigger California wallop, the rest of the ...

Or maybe you’re visiting from out of town, staying along the waterfront, when a large wave hits the beach right before the ...

Santa Barbara history buff Betsy J. Green is the author of Way Back When: Santa Barbara in 1925, which showcases a number of ...

“With genealogy, we’re really big on family history and those stories,” said the society’s outreach coordinator Holly Snyder, ...

Chris Castillo hadn’t planned to participate in CycleMAYnia—until he spotted pop-up tents for the Mayor’s Ride ...

Looking up at the Santa Ynez Foothills from various vantage points around Santa Barbara, you can see the outline of the three Romanesque stone arches that are the vestiges of the iconic Tea Gardens.

It was a busy day at the Riviera Ridge School. I’d just taught my two morning blocks of 6th- and 7th-grade English, rushed to recess duty, and barely remembered to finish my coffee, let alone find a ...

Open letter to the Women and Men of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives: Whatever your daily life and schedules have been the past few days or weeks or months, would you please step back ...