Spring will look different this year in Santa Barbara with a crackdown on the signature blowout event for America’s No. 1 party school. Santa Barbara County supervisors voted earlier this week on ...

Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and more will be honored at the 41st edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which announced its full 2026 program on Wednesday.

Metrolink, the regional commuter rail service for greater Los Angeles, was in talks to extend its service to Santa Barbara, but that plan fell apart in 2025. The proposed commuter rail service still ...

The invitations went out a few weeks ago, for a ceremony in Santa Barbara on Jan. 9 to celebrate State Sen. Monique Limón’s new position as leader of the California State Senate. The 500 people ...

As an avid traveler, I spend a lot of time exploring new destinations, and I rarely reach for the word “perfect.” Still, Santa Barbara may be the closest I’ve come to finding a place that truly ...

Indivisible Santa Barbara is calling on community members to participate locally in a nationwide protest against recent actions by the Trump administration, 10 a.m.-noon Saturday, Jan. 10 on upper ...

In the wee hours of Jan. 1, while most of the world was sleeping off its New Year’s Eve celebration, long-time Santa Ynez residents Jennifer and Steve Berman tromped through a Southern California ...

Santa Barbara Airport first closed down in the middle of the night, it reported in a Facebook post: “As of 1:15am, Santa Barbara Airport is temporarily closed due to flooding on the airfield,” the ...

Sign up for ON the Beat, Josef Woodard’s semi-weekly newsletter preaching the gospel of eclectic music tastes. In Santa Barbara, the diurnal extremes — the long ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The Columbia Winter Solstice Lantern Parade returned this year with its largest turnout yet, marking the first time the annual celebration was held at Finlay Park. Parade ...

Tacauma Lettsome, a former law enforcement officer and assistant basketball coach at Ridge View High School, died New Year’s morning after a battle with ALS. One of Columbia’s most ambitious ...

Santa Barbara’s namesake warship just made history by launching a one-way attack drone at sea in the Middle East. The USS Santa Barbara, an Independence-class littoral combat ship, launched the drone ...