A federal appeals court on Dec. 31 denied a request by environmental groups to stay Texas-based Sable Offshore’s plans to restart oil production in Santa Barbara County. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court ...
Whether it was because of tariff madness, interest rates, problems overseas, or all of the above, 2025 was filled with a lot of economic uncertainty. Unfortunately for the masses, 2026 will carry a ...
Artificial intelligence, large language models and the data centers that house all that information are becoming more in demand by the day, and as a result, so too is the power necessary to run it all ...
Flyhouse, a tech driven private aviation platform for booking charter flights, has acquired charter operator Sun Air Jets, which is headquartered at Camarillo Airport. The acquisition was announced ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...