Music, bubbles, and cake were the name of the game at today's festive groundbreaking for Pardall Gardens. The new park will ...

New state laws are paving the way for high-density housing projects across the state, including in Isla Vista, already one of the densest areas in Santa ...

Overall Part 1 Crime and Property Crime Rates Continued to Decrease, while Part 1 Violent Crime increased Slightly The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office has released the 2024 crime statistics for ...

Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) has named the winners of its first “Keep Our Air Clean” Student Art Contest. Parth Thakran, a second-grader at Isla Vista Elementary School, ...

Local agencies have released preliminary figures from the unsanctioned Deltopia spring break event in Isla Vista, which took ...

ISLA VISTA, Calif. — Music, bubbles, and cake were the name of the game at today's festive groundbreaking for Pardall Gardens. The new park will fill a vacant lot on Pardall Road — a high ...

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

A short film written by UC Santa Barbara student Travers Tobis was nominated for a College Television Award — an honor often ...

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UCSB student film "The Circus Monkey" has been nominated for a prestigious Student Emmy. Written by Travers Tobis and ...

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Reports 485 Citations, 84 Arrests, and 5 Underage DUI’s Occurred During Deltopia Weekend ...

The vocabulary of today’s far right is riddled with irony. Many of the terms now weaponised by misogynists and authoritarians ...