Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and more will be honored at the 41st edition of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which announced its full 2026 program on Wednesday.

Santa Barbara’s namesake warship just made history by launching a one-way attack drone at sea in the Middle East. The USS Santa Barbara, an Independence-class littoral combat ship, launched the drone ...

The Santa Barbara Police Department responded to a bomb threat in a Santa Barbara neighborhood Wednesday evening, eventually calling in a bomb squad to assist. The Santa Barbara Police Department ...

Santa Barbara’s flourishing food and beverage scene reached new heights in 2025. Although this affluent beach town is best known for its idyllic charm, scenic mountain-meets-ocean landscape and many ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Lines of folklorico dancers, norteño musicians and lowrider bikers normally burst with cultural pride at the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Santa Barbara received 6.67 inches of rain over three days, shattering the county’s November rainfall record and ...

The mother of a missing Santa Barbara County girl was released from custody after she was detained in a case separate from the disappearance of her daughter, it was announced Wednesday. Ashlee Buzzard ...

Occupying a prized parcel of land once home to the legendary 400-room Potter Hotel is the recently reimagined and rebranded hotel The Milo. Located on famed Cabrillo Boulevard, the 121-room beachfront ...

Eric Preven, a writer-producer on the sitcom Reba who produced hundreds of episodes of the daytime drama Santa Barbara, worked on several other shows and was a Los Angeles journalist, died November 8 ...

As Santa Barbara County authorities continued to look for a missing 9-year-old girl, investigators now believe the girl was with her mother at around the time she went missing. The Santa Barbara ...

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The commanding officer of USS Santa Barbara was relieved of duty on Thursday. A Navy news release cited a loss of confidence in Cmdr. Adam Ochs’s ability to command the littoral combat ship. The term ...