Isla Vista News

The Goleta City Council made it clear Tuesday that it strongly opposes a Santa Barbara County Fire Department cost-cutting plan to reduce staffing at Station 11 in the coming fiscal year.

The Very Rev. Father Nicholas Speier of St. Athanasius Orthodox Church at the Sumida Garden Lane site of what will soon be the new home of his parish in Goleta.

UCSB student organization Street Health Outreach recently created an online petition to allow people to live in their cars in vacant Isla Vista parking lots without risk of being ticketed.

A group of enterprising UC Santa Barbara students are attempting to bridge the gap between student life and campus life with the creation of a magazine called Campus Point .

UCSB Police Department Officer Ryan Smith recently announced the he will run against incumbent Sheriff Bill Brown and Santa Barbara County Sheriff Department Sgt.

They saved the Santa Barbara parking lots, and we need to save The Isla Vista Neighborhood Medical Clinic from being sold and turned into another apartment house or McDonalds! The old church should also become the Isla Vista Community Center, something needed for decades.

The Associated Students Office of the President held Raise Your Voice! - a town hall meeting addressing diversity, representation and marginalization in the campus community - at Corwin Pavilion last night.

Last Thursday, local officials and members of the public gathered at Walter Capps Park to take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for a newly erected wooden fence along the park's oceanside cliff.

The Isla Vista community gathered at greater Anisq' Oyo' Park on Saturday to enjoy a host of environmentally friendly activities and listen to live performances at UCSB's annual Chilla Vista festival.

Isla Vista is a place of surprises. Every time you turn around, there is someone doing something incredible .

Crane Country Day School honored two of its veteran science teachers, Pat Bixler and Phil von Phul, for their 30 years of service during the school's annual fundraising gala on May 4. Bixler teaches middle school math as well as kindergarten and eighth-grade science; Von Phul teaches sixth-grade geography and seventh-grade science at the Montecito ... (more)

Santa Barbara County officials, community service members, and park department personnel unveiled a new split-rail wood fence near the top of an Isla Vista bluff at Walter Capps Park Thursday evening, hoping it will help prevent more of the falls that have plagued the seaside college town for years.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department is asking the public to help identify a young man who allegedly conducted a strong-arm robbery in the Isla Vista area around 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Isla Vista's ninth annual Chilla Vista will feature hip hop-infused indie surf rock trio Radical Something along with local Isla Vista bands Junipero, Ultraviolet, Adventure Dogs and Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus this Saturday in the Greater Anisq' Oyo' Park.

A French drummer and an American guitarist walk into a bar - a coffee bar that is - and sit down to discuss their band, Alpha Phunk.

Tonight at 7 p.m., the traveling film festival LunaFest is making a stop in the Isla Vista Theater to showcase nine award-winning short films concentrating around diverse topics and issues within the female community and raise money for local and national organizations.

Resident Edhat photographer, Aquaholic, shares the beauty of Butterfly Beach with this colorful photograph.

As a man once said, "Yeah, it's fun." I enjoy public sex for the same reasons I enjoy scary movies - the thrill of it.

Local officials will gather to formally celebrate a new park improvement at Walter Capps Park located at 6731 Del Playa in Isla Vista on Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 4:30PM. A new 390ft split rail wood fence was installed near the bluff top of the 1.2 acre park.

The tenants of 6643 Del Playa Drive - senior house of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity on Isla Vista's main party drag - claim their landlord was well aware of their apartment building's rickety and rotted second-story balcony before it collapsed during a party on April 6, sending four people to the hospital.