Santa Barbara County News

A man suspected of carjacking a woman at gunpoint near Cal Poly on Wednesday evening has been arrested in Santa Barbara County.

Three Santa Barbara County Special Ed classes are closed due concerns over the swine flu.

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department is holding H1N1 vaccine clinics for people who fall into a "high risk" category as defined by the Centers for Disease Control.

The days of drinking a beer, or several beers, on beaches along Del Playa Drive in Isla Vista officially ended yesterday when the Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance that permanently banned alcoholic beverages there.

A 23-year-old driver was left with serious injuries after a crash in Santa Barbara County.

It's day two of the huge Halloween party in Isla Vista and once again security is tight.

The tall stranger in the Stetson strides slowly into Santa Barbara's City Hall as a lone guitar plays in the background.

Deceased French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, making 350 million U.S. dollars, has beaten Michael Jackson in the list of top-earning in 2008 dead celebrities compiled by Forbes, according to media reports Wednesday.

A former Santa Barbara County employee filed a lawsuit against the county for wrongful termination Tuesday morning.

A train crashes into a SUV near Santa Maria, and thankfully, all five people inside the vehicle survive.

Fears about the swine flu increase after another person dies from complications.

" After over 32 years of service with the City of Santa Barbara, Assistant City Administrator Joan Kent announced that she will end her lengthy career with the City on December 10, 2009, to have more time for personal interests.

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department reported Friday the death of an 82-year-old woman with significant underlying medical issues and complications associated with the H1N1 flu .

A state panel postponed a decision on whether areas of the Palos Verdes Peninsula may be closed to fishing under the Marine Life Protection Act in an effort to protect ocean habitat.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department and the UCSB Police Department announced Wednesday that a man taken into custody in Isla Vista on Tuesday evening is believed to be the person who sparked a lockdown and floor-to-floor search of South Hall on the UCSB campus on Monday.

An exhibitor floor full of sales representatives smiling eagerly in their booths is the heart and soul of any trade show.

Associated Press Originally published 11:23 a.m., October 20, 2009 Updated 11:23 a.m., October 20, 2009 A 4-year-old boy has died from swine flu in Santa Barbara County, one week after a 5-year-old girl died from the sickness in San Diego County.

Tucked away on one of Goleta's lesser-known industrial areas, Alliant Techsystems - an aerospace and defense company better known as ATK - has a spaceworks operation gearing up to create the fanlike solar arrays for NASA's Orion spacecraft , the crew module for the Moon, and eventually the Mars-based Constellation Project .

A head-on collision on Highway 154 at Painted Cave Road left six people injured Friday morning.

Santa Barbara County Animal Services is urging dog owners to vaccinate their dogs after several cases of Parvovirus emerged throughout the County.