The funds raised will support local firefighter programs and expand training facilities that benefit and strengthen Santa Barbara County. The effects will be ... evening of dancing and engaging with ...

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Santa Barbara County's Opioid Unified Response grant program aims to award thousands of dollars to local organizations ...

The Mujeras Makers Market was honored as Business Champion of the Year in Santa Barbara. It started out as a small parking ...

Singleton is the Executive Director of the TMBC Lincoln Resource Center, Founder of Well Suited, and COO of the QC Empowerment Network.

When Santa Cruz Sentinel reporter Jessica A. York told Mary Gaukel Forster that she would be the newspaper’s first winner of the Santa Cruz County Hero award, she quickly teared up. “It’s ...

A Nottingham campaigner says he hopes a new gravestone will ensure one of the city's unsung heroes is not "forgotten to history". Architect Watson Fothergill designed many of Nottingham's most ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – Evacuation orders and an evacuation warning for the Lake Fire burn scar and nearby areas have been lifted as of 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Although the evacuation orders ...

IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY... THE CONCERN HAS MOVED FROM THE RAIN... TO THE COASTLINE... WHERE DANGEROUSLY HIGH SURF IS EXPECTED <MICAAH FLORIO, MARGARITAVILLE CAPITOLA> <FILE 0 1151, 00:11:45:28 ...

Claire Waters served in WWII’s 6888th and later founded Project Help in Columbus. Claire Waters served in the 6888th Battalion, the only all-Black Women’s Army Corps unit stationed overseas in ...

Today, it’s the players we had at 41-50 – featuring a pair fighting to take the mantle of best ruckman in the league off Max Gawn, a Brisbane premiership hero, and perhaps the most underrated ...