Who could have predicted that 2023 would be one of the wettest years in recorded history? What a welcome and wondrous experience it has been to observe our local creeks spilling over once again with ...

MONTECITO, Calif. - The specialized ring nets of woven metal hanging across some Montecito creeks will be coming out soon. They were installed after the deadly mudflow event that took 23 lives on ...

Regarding the ring nets installed in the canyons above Montecito in response to the disastrous mudslide of January 9, 2018: As the executive director of an environmental organization in Santa Barbara, ...

MONTECITO, Calif. (AP) — A system of nets intended to catch boulders and other debris during rainstorms in a California hillside community devastated by mudslides five years ago has been removed over ...

A 30-year-old Palm Bay man has been arrested after investigators linked him to an international child sexual abuse ring stretching from the across the U.S. to Turkey. The news of seven arrests in ...