Santa Barbara’s namesake warship just made history by launching a one-way attack drone at sea in the Middle East.

We’d been friends since Pepperdine University a hundred years ago and, over the decades I tried to get her to write her popular Santa Barbara history and society columns for Noozhawk. Erin being an ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has closed its "Chumash Life" hall and is awaiting consultation with the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians as one of a number of museums and educational ...

As 2025 draws to a close, the County of Santa Barbara proudly highlights a year of transformative achievements that ...

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. The first inhabitants of Santa Barbara were the Chumash, a Native American tribe known for their canoes, shell ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History opened its annual summer exhibit 'Butterflies Alive!' which will remain open until Sep. 4, 2023. The exhibit features almost 1,000 ...

Every year, Santa Barbara celebrates its founding by Spanish settlers with Old Spanish Days, a five-day celebration with music, dancing, history, community events and more. Started in 1924, this ...

Santa Barbara, with fewer than 90,000 people, barely makes it into California’s 100 largest cities. But this coastal enclave has an outsize role in the state’s history. Settled by the Spanish as a ...

A three-inch long Joro spider (Trichonephila clavata) was spotted at a local Santa Barbara County business this ...