The Santa Barbara Holiday Parade will return to State Street for the first time since 2019. (Courtesy DSBIA) SANTA BARBARA, ...

Santa Barbara mayoral and District 5 City Council candidates agreed on concerns about artificial intelligence and the need to protect residents from ICE on Wednesday night at Valle Verde, but they ...

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Jeff Greenfield (left), Martin Kasindorf, Josh Molina and Jerry Roberts (right) speak at the Vistas Lifelong Learning event on the state of journalism at Santa Barbara City College on Oct. 16, 2026.

Over 1,000 protestors flooded the streets of downtown Santa Barbara at noon on Saturday, marching from Alameda Park to City Hall in a bold display of opposition to President Trump and and his federal ...

Aston Smith is a Sara Miller McCune News-Press Summer Fellow and award-winning video journalist, videographer, and photographer. He is studying journalism and communications at Santa Barbara City ...

One in eight women are affected by breast cancer, according to Dr. Winifred Leung, a radiologist who specializes in breast imaging. Since it’s so common, millions of women live in fear of “the C word.

Neda DeMayo, president of Return to Freedom, stands between two of the horses at the Return to Freedom Lompoc sanctuary. The nonprofit she founded, Return to Freedom, operates two large sanctuaries on ...

The Montecito Sanitary District wastewater treatment plant was built in the early 1960s. In the short term, the board will be forced to spend millions of dollars on repairs. (Photo by Melinda ...

Community Center that the city’s roads and infrastructure need attention but differed over how to support Old Town businesses. In District 1, incumbent Luz Reyes-Martin is running against Rollin ...

The allegations have gone viral across UCSB through Yik Yak, an anonymous, location-based social media app popular on college campuses, where posts with hundreds, and in some cases more than a ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (October 16, 2026) — The Santa Barbara High School Alumni Association will honor five distinguished graduates as its 2026 Wall of Fame inductees on Friday, October 16, in a ...