Santa Barbara

One of an elite group of glamorous supermodels who graced magazine covers in the ’80s and ’90s and appeared in George Michael’s “Freedom! ’90” music video, Tatjana Patitz has died at age 56.

Federal inspectors found that Plains had made several preventable errors, failed to quickly detect the pipeline rupture and responded too slowly as oil flowed toward the ocean.

A new ranking analyzed 118 countries for road trip factors, such as sights, road quality, gas prices and landscapes. Here are the five that came out on top.

The Coast Guard has announced new safety rules following a deadly blaze that killed 34 people on a scuba diving boat off the California coast more than two years ago

Kim Liao is a 27-year-old senior financial analyst living in Orange County, Calif. Here’s how she earns, spends and saves her money.

Fire crews are battling the Alisal fire in Santa Barbara County, which has burned over 6,000 acres and remains at 0% contained as of Tuesday morning.

A major highway in Southern California’s coastal mountains remained closed Wednesday and evacuation orders were in place as a growing wildfire chewed through dry vegetation in the region.

Emergency crews in Santa Barbara launched a rescue attempt with four-wheelers, a drone, engines and a truck for what turned out to be a mannequin with long-flowing hair clinging to the side of a cliff.