Education Archives

Parents Create Hummingbird Hideaway for Santa Barbara Students

November 24, 2025 11:43 am Patricia Martellotti

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - A group of parents has turned compassion into action with the creation of the “Hummingbird Hideaway" at Monte Vista… Continue Reading

Cal Poly’s Study Abroad Program Ranked Top In The Nation For Fourth Time

November 24, 2025 12:03 pm Jarrod Zinn

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (KEYT) - Cal Poly is entering the winter season on a few bright notes. The Campus Health and Wellbeing department has… Continue Reading

Allan Hancock College’s Santa Maria campus closed Thursday due to power outage

November 20, 2025 4:02 pm News Channel 3-12

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Allan Hancock College put out the following press release in English and Spanish regarding Thursday's closure of the Santa… Continue Reading

UCSB students react to regent’s tuition vote

November 19, 2025 6:23 pm Tracy Lehr

ISLA VISTA, Calif. (KEYT) Despite protester chanting "UC UC you can't hide, we can see your greedy side," the University of California Board of… Continue Reading

Zip Books Are Back At Santa Ynez Valley and Goleta Libraries

November 19, 2025 3:03 pm Jarrod Zinn

BUELLTON, Calif. (KEYT) - Bookworms in the Santa Ynez and Goleta valleys have a chance to add more books to the libraries through a unique… Continue Reading

Online Tool Helping Students with ADHD Fast-Track Classroom Accommodations at Santa Barbara City College

October 30, 2025 5:59 pm Mina Wahab

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) — Santa Barbara City College has adopted a diagnostic evaluation from Mentavi Health that determines whether a student… Continue Reading

Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley combines romance and comedy at SBCC

November 15, 2025 10:49 pm Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) Jane Austen fans and their friends are flocking to see Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. The Santa Barbara City… Continue Reading

Student employees allege sexual assaults and harassment by ICON Apartments supervisors

November 12, 2025 1:35 pm Andrew Gillies

ISLA VISTA, Calif. (KEYT) – Article Student Living LLC, a nationwide student housing-focused company that operates as ICON Apartments in Isla Vista,… Continue Reading

UCSB students to host “Save Deltopia Town Hall”

November 11, 2025 5:51 pm Tracy Lehr

ISLA VISTA, Calif. (KEYT) The unsanctioned street party known as Deltopia usually happens along Del Playa Drive in Isla Vista the weekend following… Continue Reading

Cal Poly & Hancock Collaboration Makes Bachelor’s Degrees Available to Santa Maria Students

November 10, 2025 11:44 am Jarrod Zinn

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) - Applications are open now for Cal Poly’s Bachelor Degree programs, being taught at the Allan Hancock College campus in… Continue Reading

Santa Barbara High School brings The Breakfast Club to the stage

November 8, 2025 11:35 pm Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The Santa Barbara High School Theater Department's production of The Breakfast Club just opened. This year marks the… Continue Reading

Mesa hosts Garden Party to help young people with housing and trauma programs

November 8, 2025 11:48 pm Tracy Lehr

OJAI, Calif. (KEYT) The nonprofit Mesa that helps young adults overcoming homelessness held its first fundraiser. Mesa is located in… Continue Reading

Will Head Start make headway in the midst of the historic shutdown?

November 5, 2025 5:21 pm Mina Wahab

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.—Head Start is getting held back. The organization will be forced to lay off 97 workers and close 6 of its centers in… Continue Reading

Cal Poly Professor helps to set new lightweight aircraft altitude record during class

November 5, 2025 5:15 pm Andrew Gillies

SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY, Calif. (KEYT) – Cal Poly professor Paulo Iscold helped to set an unofficial altitude record for a Cub-style lightweight… Continue Reading

Santa Barbara County Sheriff Releases New Travel Route and Photo in Melodee Buzzard Case

November 3, 2025 4:26 pm Caleb Nguyen, Tracy Lehr

LOMPOC, Calif. (KEYT) – Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office detectives provided a new map and photo in their search for Melodee Buzzard.… Continue Reading

Ballet Preljocaj dancer leads community class before “Gravity” West Coast Premiere at The Granada

November 3, 2025 7:48 pm Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) A longtime dancer with Ballet Preljocaj led a free community class at the Carrillo Ballroom on Monday afternoon, before… Continue Reading

Hundreds of SBCC Students Explore More Than 70 Colleges Without Leaving Campus

October 29, 2025 11:09 am John Palminteri

A Santa Barbara City College Transfer Fair helps students learn about four-year schools without leaving their campus. It is an annual… Continue Reading

Santa Barbara Teens Box Their Way to Better Mental Health

October 27, 2025 11:41 am Patricia Martellotti

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) - A new kind of training is taking shape in Santa Barbara. It starts with a pair of boxing gloves. “I really feel… Continue Reading

Popular Pumpkin Patch offers hayrides, maze and more in Ventura

October 26, 2025 9:26 pm Tracy Lehr

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) Generations of people visit McGrath Brothers Great Pacific Pumpkin Patch before Halloween. Some adults remember visiting as… Continue Reading

The Kindred Collective Hosts Inaugural “Flourish & Flow: A Black Joy Beach Party”

October 26, 2025 9:15 pm Tracy Lehr

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Kindred Collective at University of California, Santa Barbara's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education and… Continue Reading