Leeta Materials Co-Founders Linus Kautzsch, CTO, and Kira Wyckoff, CEO. (courtesy photo) It has only been a couple of years since Leeta Materials won UC Santa Barbara’s New Venture Competition — and ...

Aerial view of the Olive Crest Hope Refuge Campus in the Santa Barbara hills. (courtesy photo) Authorities say Santa Barbara is a midway point in an underage sex trafficking corridor that runs up and ...

As 2025 comes to a close, it would be easy to dwell on our affordability crisis, tariff mayhem and upheaval among our immigrant communities. But we’d prefer to look on the half-full side of the glass ...

By Staff Report The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara, joined by city officials, project partners, and community members, celebrated the official groundbreaking of Jacaranda Court, a new ...

Jennifer Karapetian, chief deputy district attorney for the Santa Barbara County District Attorney's Office, has been named Attorney of the Year by Santa Barbara Women Lawyers. (courtesy photo) ...

The holiday season usually brings a lot of light and joy, but for a majority of Americans, decisions in regards to healthcare in 2026 will also need to be made. Affordable Care Act subsidies, or tax ...

In the aftermath of January’s Los Angeles County wildfires, Direct Relief is supporting Venice Family Clinic by providing emergency funding, medications, and critical medical supplies. (courtesy photo ...

By Staff Report The Ventura College Foundation distributed a record $1.16 million in direct student assistance during the 2024-25 academic year and another $1.54 million to 56 college programs across ...

December and January are known for holiday festivities and family get-togethers, but they’re also known for stress and weight gain. And those two — stress and diet — lead to heart attack risk. The ...

By Jennifer Duarte We’ve all heard the whispers — or seen the social media comments — over the past decade: “Malls are dead.” It’s an easy narrative in the age of one-click online shopping and ...

More than a dozen years ago, Garret Olson was sitting in his living room in Scottsdale, Arizona, when the phone rang. There was an opening for a fire chief in San Luis Obispo, so the person on the ...

Doug Kleam began his role as president of Dignity Health St. John’s Regional Medical Center and St. John’s Camarillo Hospital on Dec. 1. (courtesy photo) Doug Kleam, the new president of Dignity ...