The castle that is the Hollister Ranch has been fortressed for over 40 years, so long that relatively few Californians have ...

Property owners at 14,500-acre Hollister Ranch on the remote coast west of Santa Barbara are back in court, seeking to prevent nonresidents from accessing the beach from the steep blufftops and ...

Behind the exclusive gates of Hollister Ranch are some of California’s most-coveted beaches and surf breaks. Few have had the chance to visit them. But earlier this month, after decades of pushback ...

Reporting from Santa Barbara — One of California’s least tarnished stretches of coastline will be accessible only to wealthy property owners, visitors with guides and those who can boat or paddle two ...

In response to last October’s decision to grant public access to Hollister Ranch – an 8.5 mile stretch of private beaches and coveted surf spots north of Santa Barbara – a lawsuit has been filed ...

The tide has turned, so to speak, in favor of those who have been fighting to get to the beach at Hollister Ranch on the spectacular Gaviota coast. Recently, a Santa Barbara County judge put the ...

A Santa Barbara County Superior Court judge gave preliminary approval to a class-action lawsuit settlement between the parties in a case in which residents of Hollister Ranch have been trying to keep ...

A longtime Hollister Ranch activity has come under scrutiny as the spotlight continues to shine on the private 14,500-acre community and its ongoing legal wrangle with environmentalists and state ...

Coastal officials knew decades ago it would take money to open Hollister Ranch to the public. So they entrusted Santa Barbara County with $1 million to someday be spent on land acquisition, trails and ...

All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray, but the owners of a midtown skyscraper featuring live video feeds of a west coast beach on its facade say a little California dreamin’ shouldn’t cost ...

A teenager from Hollister drowned at a beach north of Santa Cruz on Sunday when he slipped off ocean rocks and fell into the water.Santa Cruz County Sheriff's deputy Ryan Kennedy identified the ...