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Overall Part 1 Crime and Property Crime Rates Continued to Decrease, while Part 1 Violent Crime increased Slightly The Santa ...

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Releases 2024 Crime Stats - Overall Crime and Property Crime Decreased, Violent Crime Slightly ...

Overall incidents of Part I crimes — described as the most serious — dropped in 2024, with violent crimes increasing almost 8 ...

The prestigious postdoctoral scholars program at UC Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) has served as a career launchpad for scores of prominent physicists. The highly ...

Happy Easter and a belated Happy Passover to my fellow faith-filled friends. Local journalism is Santa Barbara County’s civic lifeline. For nearly 18 ...

It starts with heat. Then cold. Then, heat again. Maybe a plunge pool. Maybe a nap. A moment of stillness. A social sauna. A hydrothermal circuit that feels more like a ritual than a routine. This ...

With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the ...

Chocolate is undoubtedly the nation's favourite dietary vice. The average person needs no excuse to indulge their tastebuds, with each of us spending an average £1.70 a week on chocolate bars and ...

It is generally true that teenagers go through a stage of needing more sleep. In adolescence there is a change in the natural pattern of sleep, which usually includes less time spent sleeping at ...

Juliet Lemar is an award-winning multimedia journalist who’s covered everything from murder to puppies from the Central Coast to L.A. She joined KSBY as the Santa Barbara South Coast community ...