Residents of Santa Barbara County can see how exceptionally beautiful their home is, but how do you quantify that level of ...

Lake Cachuma’s surface sparkles in the afternoon sunlight, the water lapping gently against the concrete walls of Bradbury ...

They say you can’t put a price tag on beauty, but maybe you can.       A recent report from the Land Trust for Santa Barbara ...

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The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA issued an updated flood advisory at 8:54 p.m. on Sunday. Flooding caused by excessive rainfall ...

The USDA’s Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) program and the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County are collaborating to strengthen ...

Artist Miguel Valenzuela has created multiple representations of topographical maps of places around that world that truly capture the beauty of the different landscapes on his Instagram account ...

Really dry and boring, right? Wrong. The Santa Barbara County Courthouse epitomizes the Spanish-Moorish architecture that is found across the city. Completed in 1929, the complex impresses ...

A pregnant Santa Barbara woman plummeted to her death while hiking in Greece over the holidays. Clara Thomann, 33, fell about 164 feet down a gorge on the Greek island of Crete on Dec. 23 ...

Moon Lidar is a visualization of the data collected by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter (LOLA) mission. According to this factsheet, the visualization includes nearly six billion measurements.

SANTA ROSA COUNTY, Fla. -- Two severely neglected horses were recently rescued and taken to a sanctuary in Santa Rosa County. One of the horses is making strides in its recovery, but the other ...