If current results hold, Santa Barbara’s city council will see one new face next year. Provisional results show that newcomer ...

Grete Pedersen, artistic director and principal conductor of the Carmel Bach Festival, enters her second season of leadership ...

Entering this sleek spot with its black leather booths and velvet cushioned seats complete with gold embellishments and a ...

Incumbents Oscar Gutierrez and Mike Jordan were ahead in their re-election bids for Santa Barbara City Council seats in early ...

Jason Fontenet II had 21 points in UC Santa Barbara's 94-53 win against Portland on Saturday night. — Ajay Mitchell's 37 points led UC Santa Barbara over Long Beach State 76-74 on Thursday.

When the check-in desk at your hotel doubles as a bar, and you’re greeted with a fresh “Welcome Cocktail” along with your key ...

The 87th Carmel Bach Festival opened Saturday evening with fans gathering on the chilly Sunset Center terrace to hear a pre-concert lecture and traditional Tower brass music. Founded in the 1930s ...

Since ancient times, the end of October has been celebrated in the Celtic lands as the eve of the new year, which begins Nov. 1. Here, we enjoy this midpoint between fall and winter as a time of ...

Intermezzo, her fourth novel, is her most fully developed and moving yet. It’s about two Irish brothers, 32-year-old Peter Koubek, a Dublin lawyer, and 22-year-old Ivan, a chess prodigy, and their ...

Off Register: The Santa Barbara Art Book & Print Fair, is free and takes place Saturday, November 16, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., at the ...

The best time to visit Santa Barbara is from March to May or from September to November. Temperatures are fairly mild year-round, hovering in the 60s and 70s, but traveling in early spring or fall ...

University of California, Santa Barbara is a public institution that was founded in 1909. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 23,232 (fall 2023), its setting is suburban, and the campus ...