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Alta Vista Tours will launch PhD-led stargazing tours in the Santa Barbara area on Saturday, March 28, 2026, offering guests an ...

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After a year of loss, Betsy Andrews returns to the deep calm and natural wonder of this eight-island archipelago stretching from Santa Barbara south to San Diego.

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Sixty-two-years ago, during my senior year at the University of California, Santa Barbara, I took a marine geology course that quite honestly changed my life. I still have the textbook that I ...

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The only film festival that has ever had showings in outer space, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, came to Santa ...

Fans get their first look at Charlie Monfort Field at America First Ballpark when Utes play home-opening series against Grand Canyon.

The popular College Corps program pays students up to $10,000 for community service work, including tutoring incarcerated ...

Watch as a pelican stuck in the netting briefly stops a college baseball game between Loyola Marymount and UC Santa Barbara.

Patrick O'Dowd Patrick O’Dowd, one of Santa Barbara’s own, died on Jan. 16 in Aberdeen, North Carolina, and though he had not lived in Santa Barbara for ...