On Monday, November 18, a 19-year-old man reportedly leaped off the bluffs on the 6700 block of Del Playa Drive in Isla Vista ...

This was the route of the first Southern Pacific Railroad across the Goleta Valley from Santa Barbara to the end of the track at a turntable and station on Ellwood Station Road to the west. The “curvy ...

Casual, affordable, beachside eats are much harder to come by in Santa Barbara than they should be, but the purr-fectly ...

Under the bright lights of the Brawlin’ Betties ’ home track at Earl Warren Showgrounds, two roller derby teams jammed, ...

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UC Santa Barbara sociology professor Cate Taylor coauthors newly published research that studied women who grew up in areas ...

A take on the “beauty and the beast” trope, I Married a Golem takes place in the “old world” shtetel setting. In this story, Ava (played by Lillian McKenzie) is tricked into marrying the lonely, local ...

Two young girls were killed in a single-vehicle crash on Wednesday, and major injuries were reported in a multi-vehicle ...

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Bird flu has been spreading among dairy workers in California’s Central Valley, jumping from cows to people. A new suspected ...

The Gauchos will play at Stanford in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, on Sunday at 5 p.m. in Palo Alto.

The incessant roar came from a cascading a waterfall still unseen, but its cacophony increased as my pace quickened while ...