One applicant for the city’s new police oversight Community Formation Commission summed it up succinctly when she told the Santa Barbara City council this Tuesday: “The competition is fierce. I don’t ...

Certain mountains, caves and rock formations held spiritual significance ... still visible today at sites like Painted Cave near Santa Barbara — feature abstract patterns, celestial imagery ...

A team of paleontologists and volunteers from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural ... before chiseling away at the hard rock containing the fossil. The whale was freed from the rock of the Monterey ...