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A 30-acre brush fire is burning on an oil lease near Highway 33 and Shell Road, north of Ventura. Captain Ron Oatman said the they have over 100 fire personnel working the active fire.

The body of woman was found Monday afternoon near an entrance to the beach in Hope Ranch. Investigators with the Santa Barbara Police and Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department are on scene.

Neverland's neighbors are ganging up against any moves to turn Michael Jackson's former home in Los Olivos into a tourist destination. Local activist Bob Field said Monday that residents of the rural Santa Ynez Valley had formed a group called "Never!"...

Last week, prosecutors told KEY News they would drop a gun charge if Brandon McInerney pleaded guilty to first degree murder with a hate crime enhancement. Attorneys for McInerney are refusing and a preliminary hearing got under way Monday morning...

Police are on the hunt for a man they say was assaulted by a man who was "peeping" into a home in the Oak Park area of Santa Barbara.

Eye on I.V. columnist Cat Neushul tours the natural beauty of the Coal Oil Point reserve.

Campers engage in everything from basketball and dance to scuba and kayaking for five days straight.

Rescue crews and investigators are currently examining the area.

Young dancers demonstrated stylistic versatility in an evening-length show at UCSB’s Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.

This production, directed by Jessica Kubzansky, marks the company’s debut as a fully professional Actor’s Equity Association theater, and runs through August 8.

For the thousands of office workers on the South Coast, Kathy Gruver has a great deal of advice, such as take your wallet out of your back pocket. It’s part of the “Healthier Office” program, said Gruver, who has been a medical massage therapist for 20 years.

“Insanity—doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Goleta city officials announced plans to scale back the number of hours that Goleta City Hall and its permit and design center will be open to the public as part of an ongoing effort to reduce operating costs.

Several weeks after two incoming special education directors pulled out of the job, the Santa Barbara School Districts has hired an interim special education administrator to oversee the embattled department through the end of the year.

Independence Day always fills me with gratitude and awe. Our nation’s founding fathers - the courageous leaders who constructed, with incredible foresight, the greatest economic and humanitarian experiment in modern times – could never have foreseen its monumental success.

The most disruptive accident at the Santa Barbara airport in decades has spurred a $60 million civil lawsuit between the...

Oxnard is perhaps an unlikely place to become the Tri-Counties’ newest destination point, but the largest city in the area...

Behind the scenes of the Bank of Santa Barbara sale – one of the biggest to hit the city in...

It’s been a bad year for California homeowners. Many have seen their property values plummet, and the luxury market is...

Spending $9.5 million is enough to make most business owners cry, but for Steve Gill, co-owner of Gills Onions, it...

A brush fire blackened at least 175 acres in the Nacimiento Lake area on Sunday, burning into

It seems I’ve created a flap with my recent article about training chickens. In the colum

As a city girl, I joined 4-H and learned to sew. I certainly never expected to experience the intens

The 2009 Festival Mozaic began officially Friday night with a stunning chamber concert at its new ma

Today Grover Beach City Council. 6:30 p.m. City Hall, 154 S. Eighth St.

A pedestrian suffered severe injuries when he was hit by a train early this evening in the Gaviota area, according to Santa Barbara County fire Capt. David Sadecki.

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A re-enactment of the 1850 marriage of Maria Josefa Dana to Henry Tefft highlighted the 10th annual Heritage Day held Sunday at the Dana Adobe in Nipomo.

Mandatory settlement talks in the lawsuit between the city of Santa Maria and a group of Orcutt and Santa Maria residents who oppose a roadway extending Union Valley Parkway through Orcutt have yet to reach an out-of-court conclusion, according to the city’s top lawyer.

Taxpayer-funded security provided through a private contractor remains active at the residence of a sexually violent predator who has lived in the 2000 block of Cebada Canyon Road northeast of Lompoc since March.

n The PUMA Aquatic Team swim camp, noon to 1 p.m. Aug. 3-14, Nipomo and Arroyo Grande High School pools; cost: $65. Info: Rich Firman, 474-1670.

South County artists from El Camino Art Association have been transforming old redwood shingles pulled from the Land Conservancy’s Octagon Barn into unique pieces of artwork that are now available at “bargain prices” to benefit youth as well as the barn project.

An incorrect phone number was included with a story on page A-1 July 10 about a Hancock College course designed for women seeking careers in emergency services.

The Nipomo High School girls volleyball program will hold a fundraiser from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Sunset North Car Wash, 1198 E. Grand Ave., Arroyo Grande.

The San Luis Obispo County Chapter of the American Red Cross received a $19,067 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation that enabled the organization to better prepare for a large-scale emergency in the county.

An Arroyo Grande resident will compete for the title of Miss California Mid-State Fair on the event’s opening night Wednesday, when American Idol winner Carrie Underwood will perform on the Main Grandstand Stage.

The San Luis Obispo County Chapter of the American Red Cross received a $19,067 grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation that enabled the organization to better prepare for a large-scale emergency in the county.

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When volunteers re-create the wedding of Maria Josefa Dana and William Tefft this Sunday at Rancho Nipomo Heritage Day, they hope to immerse visitors in the atmosphere that suffused the Dana Adobe at that 1850 event.

n Magician Jim Wilson, 2 p.m. Wednesday, Arroyo Grande Library, 800 W. Branch St., Arroyo Grande. Info: 473-7161 or www.slolibrary.org .

Associated Press - July 21, 2009 12:14 AM ET YREKA, Calif. (AP) - Rugged terrain is making it difficult for firefighters as they battle a wildfire burning in a national forest near the Oregon...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The patriarch of the Jackson family says he's taken his son Michael's death "very hard" and believes the doctor who took care of him could be behind the singer's demise.

Associated Press - July 20, 2009 11:04 PM ET MODESTO, Calif. (AP) - A search is on for a Modesto woman and her 4-year-old girl after the two disappeared in what Stanislaus County authorities...

Associated Press - July 20, 2009 11:04 PM ET LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Southern California man charged with transporting two rare, stolen violins has made his first court appearance following his...

Police arrested Cesar Vallejo of Los Angeles early Sunday morning. They say he shot a Santa Maria resident outside the Spearmint Rhino.

The 2010 city election is 16 months away, but Councilwoman Ann Ruhge is already saying she is a potential candidate for mayor.

Taxpayer-funded security provided through a private contractor remains active at the residence of a sexually violent predator who has lived in the 2000 block of Cebada Canyon Road northeast of Lompoc since March.

The District Attorney’s Office, responding to an accusation that the Lompoc Board of Education violated the state’s open meeting laws, found no evidence to support an investigation, a spokesman said Friday.

A recently passed state Senate bill has confirmed that any new roadways created by a subdivision five miles east of Lompoc will remain private.

A man posing as an employee of an established landscaping company may have defrauded more than a dozen Santa Barbara County residents out of an estimated $50,000, investigators said Tuesday.