(CNN) — Israel is striking “terror targets of the Hezbollah Aerial Unit (127)” in the southern suburb of Dahieh, Beirut, the Israel Defense Forces said, as large plumes of smoke could be seen rising ...

Authorities at Lebanon’s Beirut Rafic Hariri Airport seized $2.5 million in cash allegedly intended for Hezbollah from a passenger arriving from Turkey on Friday. Lebanon’s Finance Ministry said that ...

Almost 10 years to the day after a massive oil spill fouled the Santa Barbara coastline and prompted the closure of several drilling platforms, a Texas-based company says it has resumed crude oil ...

Santa Barbara cops are back in the saddle. After years of struggling with recruitment and retention, the Santa Barbara Police Department is experiencing its highest staffing levels in more than a ...

Regional No. 2 seed Arizona State, Regional No. 3 seed San Diego State and Regional No. 4 seed UC Santa ... in Lebanon who spoke only broken English, wagered everything when he left Beirut for ...

Santa Barbara Zoo officials announced on Facebook the passing of Kisa, their elderly snow leopard. Kisa was born at the Denver Zoo in 2008 and came to Santa Barbara in 2019 when she was 11 years old.

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Phyllis de Picciotto, a co-founder of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, has died. She was 84. De Picciotto died April 14 of heart failure at a hospice ...

As Director of the Santa Barbara Culinary Experience and writer behind Petite Wine Traveler, I’m thrilled to bring you exclusive interviews with the incredible people shaping SBCE 2025. This series ...

A Santa Barbara stabbing suspect is now facing attempted murder charges. Santa Barbara police say an arrest warrant was served on the 1300 block of Dahlia Court in Carpinteria Saturday afternoon.

University of California President Michael V. Drake, M.D., has awarded the UC Presidential Medal to UC Santa Barbara Chancellor Henry T. Yang, in recognition of Yang’s tremendous impact on the growth ...

BEIRUT (AP) — The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut's southern suburbs early Tuesday, killing at least four people, as the military said it had targeted a member of the Hezbollah ...

Beirut, Lebanon — Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a fragile ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November. Associated Press ...