Montecito News

San Jose police have confirmed that the suspect and victim who both died in Monday's standoff in a town home complex had recently been involved in a custody case where the mother, the victim, was ultimately awarded custody of the pair's 9-year-old daughter.

Shane Coffman kissed his wife goodbye, and opened the garage door in his San Jose home - expecting to slip on his shoes, drive his step-daughter to Chinese school, head to work and face a typical Monday morning.

Santa Barbara Real Estate for January through June'09 including Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito, Hope Ranch and Goleta.

San Jose Police released a photo of suspected gunman Jian Ming Liang, who was one of two people fatally shot on Monday, July 6, 2009 at a San Jose townhouse.

Caltrans has scheduled information meetings for next week for the South Coast Highway 101/HOV Project.

Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department narcotics detectives on Wednesday concluded a monthlong investigation into suspected illegal marijuana cultivators and traffickers in Santa Barbara County.

The Channel Islands YMCA held its 122nd annual Meeting and Awards Dinner at the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum on June 18.

Locals from the valley through Montecito think of Fiesta as an August event, but Fiesta Ranchera at Goleta's Stow House will bring together people from all over the South Coast June 25 in an early kick off to Old Spanish Days.

Three libraries within the Santa Barbara Public Library system will have their hours of operation reduced come July.

Comments on the document and the Departments responses to those comments have been incorporated into the final environmental document.

A 16-year-old boy has admitted setting last year's 9,544-acre Gap Fire in the Santa Barbara County foothills, investigators said.

This seasona TMs classical calendar in Santa Barbara is all about the Summer Festival at the Music Academy of the West .

Terranea, which opened last week on the old Marineland site in Rancho Palos Verdes, and the Resort at Pelican Hill near Newport Beach may be the last big resort compounds to be developed on the Southern California shoreline, says former L.A. Times travel writer Valli Herman in the June issue of Orange Coast magazine .

Drip drip: Once open to the elements, a cover was placed atop the 21-million-gallon Ortega Reservoir in 2007 to meet federal drinking water standards.

The EVER store in Montecito, at 1145 Coast Village Road, is donating 20 percent of all store and online sales from Thursday through Sunday to the American Red Cross, Santa Barbara County Chapter .

El Montecito School's fifth-grade class visited Washington, D.C., from May 18-22. The trip is an annual event for the fifth-grade class.

Anyone who's thought about dusting off the Royal manual typewriter and sifting through the terror, fatigue, disappointment, anguish and for some, relief, that accompanied Santa Barbara County's recent string of wild fires but doesn't know where to start, will have a helping hand over the next three weeks.

Santa Barbara's City and County Firefighters are well funded as far as fire services go, but some of the advanced rescue and fighting capabilities available to them -- and to those of us they protect -- require more money.

Despite lending a sympathetic ear to requests from several public speakers not to increase city water rates, the Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday backed the planned hike.

Providence Hall held its inaugural graduation ceremony on Friday at Montecito Covenant Church .