Orange, Santa Barbara and San Diego counties are soon to surpass the $100,000 annual salary threshold for a low-income single-person household in California, if current trends continue.

A 22-year-old remains missing after vanishing while walking back to his cabin at Big Bear Lake, California sheriff’s officials reported. Tanner Prentiss of Santa Barbara County, who was visiting the resort lake with friends, was last seen at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, May 17, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.

After over a century of oil and gas production in Santa Barbara County, a proposed ban on drilling could end the county’s long history with the industry

But an exhibition at the UC Santa Barbara Library draws our focus to these creatures by upending our usual experience of them. “Insects are really small. So I wanted the photos larger than life,” said curator Katja Seltmann, director of UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity & Ecological Restoration.

A mid-century ranch home near Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County, California,] will soon come to market asking $9.99 million.

The next rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California is due to liftoff Friday, May 16.

The oil pipeline that spilled more than 120,000 gallons of crude oil onto Santa Barbra County beaches and into the ocean has been restarted on the 10th anniversary of the spill. The spill took place on May 19,

With deputies as their protection, firefighters moved into the area to battle the flames while a helicopter dropped water on it from overhead, authorities said.