SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California sued the federal government Friday for approving a Texas-based company’s plans to restart two oil pipelines along the state’s coast, escalating a fight over the ...

On Thursday, January 22, 2026, at approximately 4:00 pm, custody staff conducting 15-minute interval checks found 65-year-old Jonathan Lundahl from Santa Barbara unresponsive in his single person cell ...

An inmate at the Santa Barbara County Jail has died after being taken to the hospital Thursday afternoon, the Santa Barbara ...

A 65-year-old incarcerated man, held for elder abuse charges, died after being found unresponsive in his cell Thursday, ...

More than a dozen people, many from local immigration advocacy groups, asked the Santa Maria City Council this week to do more to protect local residents being affected by Immigration ...

A jury has found two men guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of premeditated and deliberate attempted ...

A jury found Angel Varela and Oscar Trujillo-Guttierez guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of ...

Barbara Sharp Barbara Sharp, 66, passed away peacefully at her home in Santa Barbara on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, after living ...

Two Carpinteria men were served guilty verdicts in a 2021 shooting that left two Santa Barbara teenagers dead in the Eastside ...

Ashlee Buzzard, a California mother accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter, Melodee Buzzard, appeared for a brief hearing ...

The body of 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard was formally identified Monday using DNA analysis after it was recovered in early ...

A preliminary hearing for Ashlee Lynn Buzzard, charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of her 9-year-old ...