The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, claims it could save more than $4 million by terminating federal leases ...

A wave of sea lions off the coast of Southern California have been sickened by an algae-produced toxin that makes them ...

Long before Spanish missionaries arrived, the Santa Barbara coast was home to one of North America’s most complex indigenous civilizations: the Chumash.

Carrie Towbes George Burtness Carrie Towbes and George Burtness have been selected as the 82nd Persons of the Year for the ...

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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The Channel Islands YMCA is excited to open the first-ever Transitional Housing Placement Program for former foster youth in Santa Barbara County. The program will house ...

Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network (SBWCN) is currently caring for an increased number of seabirds showing signs of domoic ...

Decades after nearly disappearing from the Channel Islands ... San Nicolas or Santa Barbara islands. It may just be a matter of time, Sharpe said. Officials only reintroduced bald eagles to ...

With thousands of plant and animal species, including dozens found nowhere else on Earth, Catalina is a world-class diving ...

and a team of Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute volunteers are responding to more than 100 calls a day for marine mammals suffering from domoic acid poisoning along Santa Barbara ...

To tell Rincon’s surfing history, we’ve traced the earliest confirmed Point wave riders back to the 1930s. The names that ...