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This week, the city-hired contractor for Project Connect is working during the day and overnight in preparation for the next ...

Beginning Friday, May 9, a new traffic alignment will go into effect on Hollister Avenue at Highway 217 as Project Connect construction transitions from the north side to the south side of the ...

Some historic businesses along Hastings Street in Vancouver went up in flames on Wednesday morning. Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services was called to the Hastings Sunrise neighbourhood around 4 a.m ...

Goleta, CA (April 21, 2025) – One individual was hospitalized following a two-vehicle collision that took place Sunday morning at the intersection of South San Antonio Road and Hollister Avenue in ...

The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office filed charges Tuesday against two Goleta residents in connection to a stabbing on Upper State Street earlier this month. Eduardo Zermano ...

On April 12, 2025, at 4:31 pm, Santa Barbara Police Detectives served an arrest warrant on thirty-six-year-old Goleta resident Eduardo Zermano ... involving numerous subjects and was stabbed in the ...

A moderately strong, 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Monday ... U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office said ...