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

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This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Ever since the University of California stopped using the SAT and ACT for freshman admissions in 2020, graduation ...

Matt Kilrain is back on his bicycle, his campaign signs are back around town, and “Boat Rat Matt” is back on the ballot. Five years after finishing last in Santa Barbara’s six-candidate 2021 mayoral ...

First, he discovered that he and other senior students had to pay the Santa Barbara City College health fee even though they were on Medicare. Next, he was dismayed that the Metropolitan Transit ...

Screen grab of Southern California Edison website. A power shutoff Tuesday in Santa Barbara County is affecting more than 2,000 Southern California Edison. The public safety power shutoff is due to ...

Food assistance to pay for groceries is still available to many low-income California families who receive summer food assistance for their kids. Nearly $106 million of the federally funded SUN Bucks ...

Striking Solvang city workers march on Mission Drive during the annual Danish Days Parade on Saturday, Sept. 18. (Photo by Tom Schultz/Santa Barbara News-Press) Talks remained stuck and new disputes ...

(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – The County of Santa Barbara is now accepting proposals for its Coastal Resources Mitigation Fund (CRMF) grant program, which provides funding for projects that protect and ...

The city of Santa Barbara is struggling to create a policy that regulates illegal vacation rentals. This area of Santa Barbara has had complaints about vacation rentals. (Photo by Joshua Molina/Santa ...

This article first appeared in EdSource. A winter of potentially devastating weather driven by what scientists predict to be a massive El Niño event could strain many of California’s TK-12 public ...

The Costco warehouse at the Camino Real Marketplace is pictured. The Santa Barbara Airport Commission approved an exclusive negotiating agreement with Costco in March, allowing the company to evaluate ...