Lights, camera and, finally, action. Almost a year after it closed for renovations, the McHurley Film Center in Santa Barbara ...

Protests continued in Santa Barbara Saturday as hundreds of people gathered on Upper State Street to protest ongoing federal ...

It's a big day for the Santa Barbara International Film Festival and philanthropists Nora McNeely Hurley and Michael Hurley.

The new McHurly theatres in Santa Barbara will open this week. They will get their first use for the Santa Barbara ...

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A crowd gathered downtown to speak out against aggressive ICE activity that occurred in the Eastside neighborhood on January 28.

In honor of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, we count down the state's all-time most impressive female athletes.

– A San Luis Obispo County jury has convicted a Santa Maria man of a gang-related murder and a separate knife assault, according to the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office.

SpaceX plans to launch a batch of its Starlink commercial satellites from Vandenberg on Groundhog Day. Here's where to see the Falcon 9 in California.

The new restaurant will be an "ode to Portland," with over-the-top decor designed to pull in the bridge-and-tunnel crowd.

Olson said the ordinary lifestyle of a spy involves 'living a lie.' He and his wife, Meredith, worked overseas as CIA operatives and protected their cover by constantly lying, even to their own ...

"The Santa Cruz Small Craft Harbor was once a wetland, known after statehood as Woods Lagoon," writes columnist Ross Eric ...