In the last year, newer operators have also emerged in Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, and their posh neighbor, Montecito. With ...

Father Jack Clark Robinson, OFM, stresses that the Santa Barbara Mission Archive-Library is not limited to just one religion. It may be located at the Old ...

The Old Mission Santa Barbara was founded by Spanish Franciscans in 1786, and it's just one of the picturesque sights that help put Santa Barbara on the map. The bells have been ringing at the ...

From old cars, photos, and an earthquake simulator, Santa Barbara residents and visitors got to step into the past and peek ...

The Planning and Development Department invites the public to review the proposed zoning interactive map and attend upcoming workshops on County housing needs and opportunities.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-Some people come back day after day to watching the i madonnati images evolve. Most of the selected artists put down their chalk on ...

100 sheep have been brought in to the Mission Park in Santa Barbara to eat dry grass for fire prevention. They are eating up dry grass.

Santa Barbara, with fewer than 90,000 people, barely makes it into California’s 100 largest cities. But this coastal enclave has an outsize role in the state’s history. Settled by the Spanish ...

With the new fire hazard areas identified, the City of Santa Barbara plans to merge the state map with its Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

A detail from the interactive Santa Barbara County map of potential rezoning sites for the Mission Hills and Vandenberg Village areas shows those sites in green, sites where development is in ...

A statue of the martyr Santa Barbara is dwarfed by the bell tower of Misión de Santa Bárbara in Santa Barbara, California. According to legend, Barbara found Jesus as a young girl — a fact that ...