SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Viva La Fiesta! Old Spanish Days 2026 officially begins Wednesday night with La Fiesta Pequeña on the steps of Old Mission Santa Barbara.The show begins at 8 p.m. PT and is expected to end before 10 p.m. PT. Dozens of dancers, musicians and more will perform traditional songs and dances
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – An adorable boxer and her pups are ready and waiting to find their forever homes on the Central Coast.Dori Villalon of Santa Barbara Humane stopped by Your Morning News on Wednesday accompanied by Berry, a beautiful, three-year-old boxer. She was dropped off at a shelter in Bakersfield with seven puppies. Santa
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SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Ralph Sutter, 78, from Arroyo Grande, died Saturday after his kayak flipped over in the water at Montaña de Oro State Park, according to the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office.Dispatchers received a call for a kayaker in distress around 10:20 a.m. Witnesses said that waves flipped the
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OAK VIEW, Calif. (KEYT) – A man and a woman were arrested Wednesday after detectives found unregistered guns and drugs in their vehicle in the Ojai Valley, sheriff’s officials said. Detectives found a loaded, unregistered handgun and narcotics in a vehicle driven by a 45-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman, both identified as Oak View
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – Heavy rain Saturday morning led to flash flood warnings across a large stretch of Santa Barbara County and caused a debris flow that shut down Highway 101 near Goleta. The National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for Lompoc, Solvang, Goleta, Isla Vista, Santa Barbara, Carpinteria and the Gaviota Coast.
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – A horse in the Santa Ynez Valley tested positive for mosquito-borne West Nile virus in late August. It’s the first discovery of the virus in Santa Barbara County since 2020, according to a statement released Sunday by the county’s Mosquito and Vector Management District.The 5-year-old horse had not been
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UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – A large student housing project is under construction on the northern edge of campus near Harder and Caesar Uyesaka Stadiums. Construction cranes are towering over a section of campus where Stadium Road meets Henry T. Yang Drive (formerly Mesa Road). The San Benito Student Housing project will consist of
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SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – Police arrested two people in the Santa Maria riverbed Saturday after receiving a tip that drugs were being sold in the area.The tip came in at 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning, according to a press release from Lt. Todd Logan of the Santa Maria Police department. Officers were dispatched to the
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SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – A man was hospitalized after his car veered off the road and he suffered a cardiac arrest Friday morning east of Santa Maria, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.The crash occurred at 10:33 a.m. on Foxen Canyon Road near Fugler Road, which is just outside of the communities
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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – Firefighters extinguished a brush fire that broke out on a northern portion of base property Thursday morning.Alert California cameras captured a large plume of black smoke rising from behind a mountain ridge a few miles west of Orcutt. The Vandenberg Fire Department handled the response, and the Globe Fire
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SANTA PAULA, Calif.- A 2-alarm structure fire broke out late Tuesday night on the 1400 block of East Main Street, prompting an aggressive response from firefighters on a night of dangerously high winds across Southern California.The fire broke out shortly after 11 p.m. at a storage facility, according to Ventura County Fire Department spokesman Andrew
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LOS OLIVOS, Calif.- Firefighters responded to a fire at a guest home in the 2400 block of Lucca Avenue Friday morning. According to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department, one person was inside the building and was able to get out safely. Crews were called out to the property at 7:20 a.m. and the fire
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SOLVANG, Calif.- A large fire broke out Thursday night at a vacant restaurant that used to be the site of Sear Steakhouse on Fourth Place near Copenhagen Drive.The second-alarm fire was first reported at approximately 8:03 p.m. Video on social media shows a large plume of smoke and flames that could be seen blocks away.
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SANTA MARIA, Calif.- A section of West McCoy Lane near Broadway was closed Thursday night following an apparent water-line break that flooded the road, opened up a sinkhole and lead to a minor car accident.A resident called your News Channel about the issue around 6:30 p.m. They said there was water on the road and
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A man accused of throwing a bomb into the Santa Maria courthouse and injuring at least five people was charged Thursday in a federal criminal complaint.Nathaniel James McGuire, 20, of Santa Maria, is charged with maliciously damaging a building by means of explosive, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office Central District
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SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. – Firefighters responded to a vegetation fire that broke out Friday night in some brush along the train tracks near Quarantina and Cacique streets.The fire was reported around 6:53 p.m and sent up a large plume of smoke that could be seen from our camera atop TV Hill. The smoke had mostly
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One person died after a home caught fire early Saturday morning in Morro Bay.
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Firefighters knocked down a small vegetation fire that broke out Saturday morning at a homeless encampment along Highway 101 in Summerland.
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ISLA VISTA, Calif. – Multiple law enforcement agencies gathered on UC Santa Barbara’s campus early Wednesday morning, in an apparent attempt to secure a campus building where protesters disrupted final exams, vandalized a classroom and set up barricades earlier in the week.An Instagram page called UCSB Liberated Zone started livestreaming early Wednesday morning, showing Santa
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California Highway Patrol officers responded to a traffic accident on UC Santa Barbara’s campus Tuesday afternoon that may have involved the wife of a high-ranking university official.
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