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Multiple weather alerts were in effect Thursday due to heavy bursts of rain hitting Santa Barbara County. The National Weather Service issued a flood ...

The Goleta City Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Feb. 4 opposing Sable Offshore restarting the Las Flores Pipeline ...

David Potter first got to know Ventura from surfing when he went to college at the University of California, Santa Barbara ...