More than two dozen workers on an offshore natural-gas rig were rescued in Santa Barbara County after the station caught fire ...

Billy Rhoades, born in Santa Barbara on Feb. 20, 1963, lived his life with a spark that never dimmed and a presence that ...

More than 20 oil rig workers have been evacuated after a fire broke out on a platform off the Southern California coast. The ...

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California has filed a request in federal court to stop Sable Offshore Corp. from pumping oil off Santa Barbara. It’s an ...

Sable Offshore Corp has issued a furious statement after a California judge ruled it did not have the right to start pumping black gold again in Santa Barbara County. The oil giant vowed to fight the ...

In 2022, I started trekking up to Santa Barbara more frequently. This part of the Central Coast wasn’t unfamiliar to me but ...

A California surfer said he was followed by what he believed was a great white shark for 10 minutes near Santa Barbara last ...

Ron Takeda and Tavis Boise were downwind foil surfing off Santa Barbara when they found themselves in a cat-and-mouse chase with a great white shark.

Cal-bred filly bested determined rival Cailin Dana for her first stakes win against open company in the 1 1/2-mile turf test ...