Santa Barbara News

Carole passed away peacefully at home following a courageous battle with cancer.

Goleta author Big Jim Williams will be among the writers featured at Assistance League of Sacramento's Second Annual Authors' Day Event next month in Rancho Cordova.

The fate of privately owned but publicly used Hot Springs Canyon in the mountains above Santa Barbara was the subject of another hearing last Wednesday before the Montecito Water District's board, where the district, Land Trust for Santa Barbara County, and Forest Service tried to sort out groundwater rights in the face of a tight escrow deadline.

The Mental Health Association in Santa Barbara County is promoting the growth of a Mental Health First Aid instructor certification program in order to increase the availability of mental health treatment.

Santa Barbara filmmaker Mike deGruy will be honored at a public memorial service Sunday at Fess Parker's DoubleTree Resort .

The West Coast leg of "The Whole Love" tour continues with Wilco returning to California to perform at the Arlington Theatre in Santa Barbara.

Dr. Steven Johnson is out to change lives by offering free smiles to anyone who needs dental work, as he hosts the Central Coast's 8th annual Dentistry With Love event on March 3, 2012 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and Solvang.

Stephan Bedford handed me an eight-page bibliography comprised entirely of books about mushrooms: mycological texts as well as the histories of mushrooms and mushroom cookbooks.

Economists are predicting job growth in Ventura County will gain steam in 2012, but don't look for that to leak over into the commercial real estate markets until 2013.

After several years of multi-million dollar budget deficits, the City of Santa Barbara is now confronting budget woes that are the envy of any government entity on the South Coast.

Santa Barbara drivers have seen prices at the pump increase more than 10 cents during the past month despite low fuel demand, according to the Automobile Club of Southern California .

A judge today found that there is sufficient evidence to hold a Ventura man to answer to charges of vehicle manslaughter with gross negligence resulting in death in connection with a traffic accident that took the life of a 22-year-old Carpinteria woman in 2010.

When The Key Class partnered with the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse's Teen Court several years ago, its purpose was to work with at-risk teens to avoid criminal records and re-evaluate where their lives were headed while holding them accountable for first-time misdemeanor offenses.

"When you step into a shipping container, it's like a safe haven," said Alex Wilson, who does sales and marketing for Container Alliance, a Santa Barbara startup that sells, rents, and modifies shipping containers, and coordinates a network of similar businesses around the country.

Guests have gathered for a wedding in the lush sunken gardens of Santa Barbara county courthouse.

A year after 35 State Street Hotel Partners took over the long-dormant La Entrada project on the waterfront end of Santa Barbara's State Street, plans to jolt the hotel back to life are right on schedule.

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Between 1950 and 1980, the white sea bass fishery was pushed to the brink of destruction by gill nets, overfishing and habitat destruction.

Lewandowski was voted by San Lorenzo Valley High School classmates as most likely to host Saturday Nigh Live by 1999 in his 1987 yearbook.

A 2011 grand jury report indicated the Santa Barbara County Jail isn't just overcrowded, it's also the county's largest de facto mental health institution.