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The Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce the installation of eight distinguished professionals to its ...

SpaceX is targeting Friday, March 14 for Falcon 9’s launch of the Transporter-13 mission to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch ...

Jim Jackson The Santa Barbara Zoo has appointed Jim Jackson as the new chair of the Board of Directors, and adds new board members Ozlem Arconian, Hillary ...

The latest winter storm to blow through Santa Barbara County dumped a surprising amount of rain March 12-13. Fortunately, it cleared out and cleared up in ...

The 33rd annual Kiwanis Central Coast All-Star Basketball Spectacular is slated for Saturday, March 29 at Hancock College's ...

A night of rain created a small pond near the construction zone by the Santa Barbara Cemetery. No major flooding was reported ...

NASA’s Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) lifted off on March 11 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force ...

NASA’s SPHEREx astrophysics observatory mission launched aboard a rocket that also carried satellites for the agency's PUNCH mission.

Graphitic Energy (formerly known as C-Zero; Santa Barbara, Calif.) has commissioned its pilot plant at the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI) in San ...

The Royals (4-1) beat Templeton (3-4) in a non-league contest on Tuesday 3-0 behind six innings of shutout pitching from ...

Protecting our water starts with understanding what’s in it. That’s exactly what interns with the Goleta Water Quality Monitoring ...