Santa Barbara County has transitioned out of high fire season early this year, a shift that fire officials say was driven by ...

A new prescribed burn, called Sedgwick, was initiated today at 9:22 a.m. in Santa Barbara County, California. The prescribed fire has been burning on private land. Currently, there is no information ...

Fire crews put out a coffee roaster fire at a mixed-use commercial building on Robin Hill Road Wednesday. According to the ...

A surprise downpour Saturday night turned parts of downtown Santa Barbara into rivers, trapping people in their vehicles and ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- As teams of federal, state and local officials looked into exactly what made a deadly fire break out on a diving boat off the coast of Santa Barbara, many were stopping to ...

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 ...

Heavier bursts of rain are forecast to hit the South County and Santa Ynez Mountains through Saturday evening.

A fire in Central California's Sierra Madre mountain range is now spanning more than 60,000 acres after evacuations were ordered over the weekend. The Gifford Fire was first reported Friday near the ...

Santa Barbara County Fire Chief Mark Hartwig plans to retire at the end of the year, county officials announced Friday. Chief Hartwig began his firefighting career in 1992 with the San Bernardino ...

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, ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- The owner of the diving boat that was engulfed in flames and sank off the coast of Santa Barbara says the crew tried desperately to save the passengers trapped by flames, but ...