The 2024-25 Santa Barbara County Grand Jury Thursday released results of a comprehensive investigation of how well the County Public Health Department is ...

Kim Kardashian’s bid to buy her late father Robert Kardashian Sr.’s Bible—which he gifted to O.J. Simpson after his arrest ...

The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office proudly announces that Chief Investigator Kristina Perkins has ...

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Information is plentiful and accessible today, but the slow death of local news is obvious. More than 2,500 newspapers have ...

The U.S. Justice Department is investigating whether Columbia University concealed "illegal aliens" as the Trump ...