CABAWE — an acronym multiple board members struggled to pronounce — is a new and improved, standing advisory committee built ...

The second attempt to add a one percent fee to bottles sold would add about $1.5 million to regional marketing efforts.

President-elect Donald Trump’s housing policy for his second term is vague at best. But based on available information, many ...

Trump's promise to "end" the offshore wind industry could threaten CA's renewable energy goals, potentially cutting off ...

Located at 1212 Mission Canyon Road, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For additional ...

Today, NOAA Fisheries released two draft programmatic environmental impact statements (PEIS) to support the identification of proposed Aquaculture Opportunity Areas (AOAs) in Southern California and ...

Last week, UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., announced the formation of a search advisory committee to support the national search for ...

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Claudia McGarry has been writing a play a year for almost a decade. Inspired by the annual Ojai Playwrights Conference New Works Festival, McGarry will be producing a mini festival of her own works at ...

This is not the tasting note anyone wants to find on a bottle of $50 grenache, but that’s about what a smoke-tainted sample of grapes grown near this past summer’s Lake Fire smells and — at least for ...

The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX Falcon 9 launches at Vandenberg Space Force Base are becoming louder and more frequent.

Santa Ynez resident Cecilia Michelle Covarrubias, 41, was booked at the jail on Tuesday and found unresponsive in her cell on ...