Santa Barbara County News

Police arrested a man on suspicion of driving under the influence after a Sunday night vehicle rollover on Gibraltar Road above Santa Barbara.

New this year at UC Santa Barbara is a requirement that all students must have a primary-care provider within 30 miles of the campus health center or purchase a Gaucho Health Insurance plan.

One person was killed - and two others were seriously injured - Sunday afternoon in a single-vehicle crash at Vandenberg Air Force Base , according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department .

Lynne Gibbs, who has struggled with her daughter's mental illness, believes Laura's Law is needed and should be implemented in Santa Barbara County.

The newly released Alta Maria Chardonnay 2012 , is their first Santa Maria Valley Chardonnay in couple years and it's wickedly good.

If an earthquake were to hit the Salton Sea, which sits right atop the San Andreas Fault, Santa Barbara County residents could have as long as 90 seconds to prepare - if and when an early-warning system being tested across the state scores enough funding, and sees the right software upgrades, to get fully implemented.

Saturday's super moon may have Santa Barbara County star gazers looking heavenward, but the astronomical phenomenon is expected to make its presence felt on area beaches.

Members of the sheriff's dive team were hampered by zero visibility Saturday in their search for a missing 22-year-old boater at Lake Cachuma.

Santa Barbara County officials sent a 55-page letter to a federal agency on Friday, maintaining that not enough environmental review has been done to fully measure the impacts on the Santa Ynez Valley if a development by the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians were to go forward.

California has the strongest protections in the nation regulating oil production.

Emergency crews responded to Cachuma Lake for a possible drowning Friday night, with one person reported missing in the water, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.

In a coroner's report provided to the Daily Nexus through a Public Records Act request, an autopsy revealed that former second-year double major in philosophy and language Sierra Markee-Winkler sustained injuries consistent with falling from a cliff, such as a broken neck, on May 4, 2014, the night she died.

Personally I prefer with wine with my meal, but as more and more craft beers turn up, some chefs are thinking outside the box and serving suds with suppers.

Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley announced the conviction of Francisco Javier Carranza, 44 years old, of Lompoc, California.

Suspected arson at UCSB lights up NoozWeek's Top 5, along with John Bennett's restaurant growth spurt, Huguette Clark's dolls, and the Fourth of July Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies wait for the all clear after authorities gather evidence inside a Virginia Road residence in Montecito on July 7. Montecito residents and morning commuters had ... (more)

Santa Maria police officers responded shortly before 8 a.m. to the city's Public Works Center at 815 W. Cypress St., where the device had been taken.

Harmon has lived in Arroyo Grande for nearly 30 years and has served on the city's architectural review committee since December 2013.

On a normal workday morning in the late 1990s, Elissa Davey read the newspaper at her kitchen table.

Stang, now the owner of Dilecta Wines, began his journey through wine at an early age.

Representatives from the Rona Barrett Foundation have announced the start of an ambitious three-year, community-wide fundraising campaign to raise $3.5 million to complete the construction and furbishing of the Golden Inn & Village and provide seed money for essential programs and services to be delivered there for resident seniors and all seniors ... (more)