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Overall Part 1 Crime and Property Crime Rates Continued to Decrease, while Part 1 Violent Crime increased Slightly The Santa ...

Overall incidents of Part I crimes — described as the most serious — dropped in 2024, with violent crimes increasing almost 8 ...

Happy Easter and a belated Happy Passover to my fellow faith-filled friends. Local journalism is Santa Barbara County’s civic lifeline. For nearly 18 years, Noozhawk has delivered unbiased ...

With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the ...

For smooth legs women have so far relied on one of two choices: an old-fashioned razor or wax strips. More women are choosing to splash out on a course of treatments that can radically reduce the ...

Juliet Lemar is an award-winning multimedia journalist who’s covered everything from murder to puppies from the Central Coast to L.A. She joined KSBY as the Santa Barbara South Coast community ...

Shannon MacNeil, our senior reporter for KSBY News Daybreak, is excited to bring her passion for journalism to the Central Coast. She joined the team in October 2024, after hosting a lifestyle ...

The bitter nature of Jude Law and Sadie Frost's marriage break-up was laid bare yesterday as the couple were granted a "quickie" divorce. In legal papers finalising the split, Miss Frost accused ...

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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – A Simi Valley woman has been charged after pushing a female food cart vendor to the ground, causing her to fall and sustain… ...

IVCSD debriefed the April 5 Deltopia and Spring Festival at their April 8 meeting, along with addressing concerns regarding ...