Santa Barbara County News

Voters will be asked this fall whether to approve a slight increase on taxes paid by visitors who stay in hotels in unincorporated areas of Santa Barbara County.

The Santa Barbara gang injunction will go to trial May 5 as scheduled after the City Council took its first public vote Tuesday in favor of the civil suit, which would restrict alleged gang members from certain activities.

The business, family owned since its founding, continues its growth and has a little fun with its new 'penguin mobile' AJAX Santa Barbara Refrigeration & Air Conditioning owner Christopher Montigny, second from left, poses with some of his staff.

Santa Barbara City College senior Holly Highfill recently was selected as a 2014 Coca-Cola Community College Academic Team Gold Scholar.

The Gaviota Safety Roadside Rest Areas on Highway 101 will be closed in both directions beginning Monday, April 28 for approximately nine months for a major project to improve this facility.

The Partners in Environment , a coalition of environmental nonprofits that operate on the South Coast, has begun recruiting members in an attempt to boost local volunteerism.

Sheriff Bill Brown and Rep. Lois Capps , D-Santa Barbara, met with federal and state authorities Monday morning to discuss strategy for stopping the influx of drug- and people-smuggling boats landing on the Central Coast.

ALL TIPS received as well the sale of our special edition "2014 Santa Barbara County Tip-A-Cop T-Shirt" and Special Olympics Southern California Fundraiser T-shirt for only a $ 10.00 donation will benefit the Santa Barbara County Chapter of Special Olympics.

The two-day exhibit of more than 100 works of art, painted and photographed on the Gaviota Coast, assisted the Naples Coalition and GCC in raising funds and awareness in their efforts to preserve and maintain the beautiful rural character of the Gaviota coastline.

The South County Energy Efficiency Partnership , a partnership of Southern California Edison, Southern California Gas Co., the cities of Carpinteria, Goleta and Santa Barbara, and the County of Santa Barbara, is hosting a free refrigerator pickup weekend on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. All residents and businesses in ... (more)

The Santa Barbara County Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Commission is appointed by the Presiding Judge of the Santa Barbara County Superior Court pursuant to the California Welfare and Institutions Code.

Three people were killed and another critically injured early Monday in a crash on Highway 101, according to the Santa Barbara City Fire Department .

World powers are running out of time to slash their use of high-polluting fossil fuels and stay below agreed limits on global warming.

Bradley Allen, 59, is a pediatric heart surgeon and former surgical director at Children's Heart Institute in Houston.

The Santa Barbara County sheriff's responsibility is to enforce the laws, provide custody and court services, and protect persons and property.

Market momentum continued from 2013 right into the new year. Sales and leasing activity continued its steady pace - nothing extraordinary, but solid activity in each submarket, and across all product types.

ABOUT THE WOMEN'S LITERARY FESTIVAL In 2004 the WLF steering committee, made up of volunteers from throughout Santa Barbara County, came up with the idea of a literary festival to celebrate women authors and their diverse life experiences.

The California State Senate Rules Committee recently confirmed the nomination of Reginald "Reggie" Pagaling, a Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians tribal elder, to the state's Native American Heritage Commission.

JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR F. Dino Inumerable is administered the oath as Ventura County Superior Court judge by Judge Bruce A. Young on Friday at the Hall of Justice in Ventura.

Marsha Bailey, center, founder and CEO of Women's Economic Ventures, receives a $50,000 check for the WEV en Espanol Program from Rashi Kallur, vice president of Citi community development, and Ray Torres, branch manager/vice president of the Santa Barbara Citibank branch.