The Santa Barbara County Fire Department is planning a 280-acre prescribed burn at Sedgwick Reserve, about 30 miles northwest ...

As a potent storm got closer on Monday, National Weather Service officials ramped up warnings of flash flooding and minor ...

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Santa Barbara County Fire responded to a fire at a home on the 450 block of Camino Talavera in Goleta at around 10:38 a.m. on ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 5:25 p.m. in Santa Barbara County, California. Golf Fire has been burning on private ...

What if there were a way to put out fire without water, foam, or any other substance? What if it could be done with sound?

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Authorities said Friday medical examiners believe dozens of people trapped when a scuba diving boat caught fire off the Santa Barbara coast died of smoke inhalation, not burns ...

Court documents say criminal charges are imminent in the investigation of the fire that killed 34 people aboard the scuba boat Conception last year off the coast of Santa Barbara. Nine days after the ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – The driver of vehicle involved in a crash on Highway 101 was uninjured after the ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, CA – As we mark the 24th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the Santa Barbara County Fire ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- Fire crews continued to battle a wind-driven brush fire in the mountains above Santa Barbara as thousands of residents were allowed to return to home Tuesday. The blaze, ...