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State Farm, which already has rate increase requests pending, asked state officials to approve more insurance price increases ...

The Santa Barbara City Fire Department has received a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to purchase new jaws-of-life extrication ...

With the continuing potential for a wildland fire, elevated fire restrictions will remain in effect for the Santa Barbara, Ojai and Santa Lucia Ranger ...

Rain is headed to Southern California this week - the second dose of beneficial moisture since catastrophic wildfires ripped ...

By Malena Carollo, CalMatters State utility regulators on Thursday approved a settlement that will require Southern ...

Back-to-back atmospheric river storms are set to hit Los Angeles County this week — giving the region much-needed moisture ...

Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

An officer is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a pilot from a burning plane, which crashed into a field near a highway ...

A California trooper rushed toward a burning plane crash just in time to save the injured pilot before it exploded, dramatic video shared by the California Highway Patrol shows.

A few days ago, California’s Santa Barbara was rocked by a plane crash near US Highway 101. The incident also saw the heroics of CHP (California Highway Patrol) Officer Ricardo Ayala, who saved the ...