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The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department confirmed 15 additional positive COVID-19 cases within county lines, bringing the overall total to 47 countywide. The 15 include nine in Santa Barbara, two in Goleta, two in Santa Maria, one in Montecito/Summerland/Carpinteria and one in unincorporated areas of Goleta Valley and Gaviota. While doctors have indicated that …

Santa Clara County health officials have reported three new confirmed cases of coronavirus, also called COVID-19, now bringing the county’s total to seven. Two of the new cases are a husband and wife who recently traveled to Egypt, authorities said. The other is a woman who officials said has chronic health conditions. All three people …

While health officials want the general public to take the necessary steps to protect themselves against diseases, the coronavirus should not be a cause for panic, they said Monday.  “The coronavirus should be a cause of concern, but not alarm or panic,” Jonathan Truong, an infectious disease physician with Kaiser Permanente Southern California, said …

Santa Clara County declared a local health emergency Monday which will be in effect for 30 days. This does not mean that residents are at greater risk of infection with the novel coronavirus, authorities said. Instead, will allow health authorities to be better prepared to respond to an outbreak. The declaration will also allow the …

Santa Barbara- S County CARPINTERIA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of people breaking into cars at the Fairview Center and possibly the Calle Real Shopping Center in Goleta. The reporting party gave sheriff’s deputies a description of the suspects’ vehicle and their license plate number. The Sheriff’s Office then …

William S. Hart Union High School District board unanimously voted to recognize the week of Feb. 3-7 as National School Counseling Week across the district during Wednesday night’s school board meeting. The week was declared National School Counseling Week: “School Counselors: Helping Build Better Humans” by the American School Counselor Association. Although college-preparation counseling …

The defection of England’s Prince Harry and his American bride, the duke and duchess of something-or-other, is a refreshing break from more serious news and the best celebrity-gossip story of the new year. Like real people with minds of their own fed up with the royal masquerade, the young couple is trying to make a …

SANTA MONICA, Calif. (KABC) — Actor and former teen idol Edd Byrnes – best known for the show “77 Sunset Strip” and the film “Grease” – has died at age 87, according to his family. Byrnes died Wednesday of natural causes at his home in Santa Monica, according to his son, Logan Byrnes, a news …

ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — A horse broke down in the last race at Santa Anita on Wednesday, the track’s first racing death of the winter-spring meet after a spate of deaths last year. Golden Birthday took a bad step in the stretch and jockey Victor Espinoza fell off while trying to pull up the 4-year-old …

By Katherine Leitzell for California Sea Grant | December 27, 2019 | 9:00 a.m. If you’re a beach-goer, you know California beaches can be very different places from day to day, season to season, and year to year. Migratory species come and go. The water rises and falls. And tides and storms move sand in …