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A person was killed in a crash late Friday night near Mission Street and Highway 101. (Photo courtesy California Highway Patrol) A woman walking in a crosswalk was killed late Friday night after she ...

Washington Elementary School Principal Arielle Curry was placed on adminsitrative leave the morning of Sept. 28. (Photo by Julianna Lozada/Santa Barbara News-Press) Washington Elementary School ...

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

Santa Barbara City Council candidates, from left, Jason Carlton, Gabe Escobedo, Anabella Lehne and Alexander Stoeber participate in a forum put on by the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative and the ...

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 ...

Santa Barbara City College is a community treasure. I had the honor of serving on the SBCC Board of Trustees as the Area 7 representative from 2010–2018, shortly after completing four terms in City ...

Santa Barbara City Councilmember Kristen Sneddon proposed a change to rent stabilization ordinance on Tuesday, but then changed her mind after a lack of support. The council ended up approving the ...

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 ...

E. Howard Green grounds his campaign in his years as an SBCC student and his varied professional and volunteer activities. (Photo by Patricia Stark/ Special to the Santa Barbara News-Press) First, he ...

School board candidates Jacqueline Inda Karlsen, Mark Philibosian, Rose Munoz and Valerie Amparan at a forum hosted by the League of Women Voters. (Photo by Julianna Lozada/Santa Barbara News-Press) ...