If you’ve lived around here for years, you may take the Cold Spring bridge for granted. From behind the wheel, it’s just a ...

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Santa Barbara County Fire Department crews are on scene for a brush fire at Farren Road near Goleta just after 7:00 p.m.

GOLETA, Calif - The city of Goleta recognized local California Highway Patrol Officer for saving plane crash victims in ...

(File photo courtesy of Cal Fire) Reflecting intensifying wildfires and updated science, new state maps designate more than 2.3 million acres of local land in California as facing “high” or ...

4 spectacular Bay Area waterfall hikes for winter walks (includes Uvas Canyon, Diablo Foothills, Leona Heights) Five hikes to ...

4 spectacular Bay Area waterfall hikes for winter walks (includes Uvas Canyon, Diablo Foothills, Leona Heights) Five hikes to ...

Seismologists are closely monitoring California's fault lines as concerns grow about the possibility that the "Big One" could happen soon. The "Big One" refers to a massive earthquake that could ...

LAFD has provided a map of the areas affected. An evacuation order went into effect Thursday morning for portions of Sierra Madre impacted by the Eaton Fire. The area had previously been under an ...

Long before Silicon Valley billionaires purchased tracts of Solano County land to build a tech utopia, a group of Bay Area environmentalists proposed one of their own: An “ecovillage” to serve as ...