Santa Barbara County News Archives

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.

A Santa Barbara County prosecutor officially throws his hat in the ring to be the next District Attorney.

Authorities have issued a mandatory evacuation order for dozens of homes in central California, after a landslide stranded a man in his home.The rain that's been falling is expected to intensify today.The national weather service has issued a flash flood warning through Wednesday for areas in Santa Barbara County that had been stripped by ...

A powerful fall storm packing strong winds and rain began easing up early Wednesday without causing the heavy mudslides and debris flows that residents throughout the state had feared.

A powerful fall storm packing strong winds and rain drenched fire-scarred hillsides around California on Wednesday, and residents from north to south braced for possible mudslides and debris flows.

A flash flood watch has been issued for parts of Santa Barbara County burned in recent wildfires.

An unusually strong October storm is bearing down on California, prompting residents in areas burned by recent wildfires to prepare for heavy rain that could send mud and debris flowing into canyon and foothill neighborhoods.

The National Weather Service issued a flash-flood watch tonight for areas of Santa Barbara County that have been ravaged by wildfires.

Santa Barbara, CA--The Weather Service is expected to issue a Flash Flood Watch Monday afternoon.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Krysta Dorr drives a different route to work these days, six months after finding a woman's crumpled body on an isolated road beneath the span locals call "suicide bridge." "I still have nightmares, dreaming someone is falling on top of me," said Dorr, 21, a waitress at the Cold Spring Tavern just a few hundred feet from ...

On Thursday, October 8, the TTB made a final ruling in approving the establishment of the Happy Canyon appellation in the Santa Barbara County viticultural area.

Aerial hydromulching is complete for about 1,000 acres of the Jesusita Fire Burn Area under Santa Barbara County jurisdiction.

An Orcutt man accused of stealing up to $14 million from clients of his mortgage company faces more than 20 years in prison after pleading guilty Thursday to 59 felony counts - one for each victim.

Tuesday marked Santa Barbara County's first arrival of H1N1 vaccinations, and health officials briefed the Board of Supervisors and the public on their strategy to keep residents as healthy as possible this year.

After watching its hard-fought plan to halt Goleta Beach's slow migration into the ocean die at the hands of the California Coastal Commission in July, the Board of Supervisors yesterday went back to the drawing board, launching an aggressive timetable aimed at drumming up a new solution.

Three days after the H1N1 virus claims a life in Santa Barbara County, local leaders are preparing for the swine flu vaccine to arrive.

Actor Randy Quaid and his wife could make their first court appearance in Santa Barbara in two weeks.

A female adolescent believed to have had H1N1 influenza died Saturday, marking the first death from the virus in Santa Barbara County.

A 67-year-old Lompoc woman died early Monday when flames, possibly sparked by a faulty water heater, raced through her mobile home, according to Lompoc city fire officials.

A vote by mail election has begin in Santa Barbara. The city says it will save an estimated $50-thousand dollars.

According to Chief Trial Deputy Ann Bramsen, the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office filed one count of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter Friday against 19-year-old Katelin Ann Edwards for the July 25, 2009 death of 19-year-old Eric Philip Okerblom.

Come to the SB CAN Action Fund Fall Harvest Picnic, Sunday October 4 at 11:30am at Elings Park.

The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians in California has donated $20,000 to help Browning High School in northwest Montana complete work on a gym.

The Solvang City Council took to task two county supervisors for comments they made during a late-August meeting regarding an appeal over access to Aaron Petersen's Old Mill subdivision project.

Rep. Lois Capps , D-Santa Barbara, announced Friday the approval of $1.9 million for water projects in Santa Barbara County as part of the conference report on House Resolution 3183 , the Fiscal Year 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations bill.

Santa Maria City Council member Alice Patino has announced her intention to run for 5th District Supervisor.

In lockdown for most of the day after reports of a teenager near campus with a handgun, San Marcos High School students were released from the school in stages shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday after law-enforcement officials had scoured the grounds for a suspect.

A high school in Santa Barbara County is on lockdown as sheriff's deputies search for a teenage gunman following an off-campus fight.

Authorities say a wildfire that has burned 450 acres of dry brush at Vandenberg Air Force Base in Santa Barbara County is 80 percent contained.