Update: Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office releases identity of the 19-year-old suspect arrested for allegedly hitting a landscape maintenance worker with his car on Storke Road and fleeing the scene Wednesday afternoon.
Tens of thousands of Californians are losing health insurance every month as the state resumes checking people’s eligibility for Medi-Cal, which it suspended during the COVID-19 public health emergency.
While the Legislature is approving lots of significant bills in the final days of the session, the final call is up to the governor, who isn’t shy about using his veto pen.
Narcan was administered to two inmates found unconscious on Thursday and another on Saturday.
The ‘Los Angeles Times’ published new revelations from a leaked report on the four-year anniversary of the deadly 2019 blaze.
The man was being held in a single observation cell at the Main Jail, where deputies found him unresponsive early Sunday morning.
Santa Barbara County Fire Department stopped all forward progress and contained the Ranch Incident Thursday near the Highway 154 off-ramp.
No injuries were reported in the structure fire in the 400 block of Hawthorne Street.
Psychedelics like mushrooms and mescaline could be decriminalized in California as advocates tout their therapeutic potential.
Fire crews reach 100 percent containment on the nearly 5,500-acre wildfire that broke out Saturday in northern Santa Barbara County.
