Aerial view of the Olive Crest Hope Refuge Campus in the Santa Barbara hills. (courtesy photo) Authorities say Santa Barbara is a midway point in an underage sex trafficking corridor that runs up and ...

Leeta Materials Co-Founders Linus Kautzsch, CTO, and Kira Wyckoff, CEO. (courtesy photo) It has only been a couple of years since Leeta Materials won UC Santa Barbara’s New Venture Competition — and ...

By Staff Report The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara, joined by city officials, project partners, and community members, celebrated the official groundbreaking of Jacaranda Court, a new ...

As 2025 comes to a close, it would be easy to dwell on our affordability crisis, tariff mayhem and upheaval among our immigrant communities. But we’d prefer to look on the half-full side of the glass ...