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Fifty-six years ago, a disaster off the coast of Santa Barbara sparked the creation of Earth Day, a movement that continues to ...

A Houston-based oil company has rebuffed the authority of the California Coastal Commission in a bid to revive drilling off ...

The pipeline caused a major oil spill a decade ago, fouling the ocean off Santa Barbara County. The new owners say they don’t ...

Several nonprofit and environmental advocacy groups have filed two separate lawsuits on Tuesday against the California Office ...

More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along Santa Barbara's coastline served to galvanize the modern environmental movement and also helped to usher in one of the state's strongest ...

This week, I sat down with one of Santa Barbara’s most prolific wine voices — Matt Kettmann, senior writer at The Santa Barbara Independent and a writer-at-large for Wine Enthusiast. With more than ...

Property owner Gregg Petty describes what happened when a vehicle slammed into a duplex on Canon Perdido Street on Santa Barbara's Westside. Credit: Tom Bolton / Noozhawk photo Call it blind luck.