Help plan the future of Santa Barbara’s Waterfront. The City of Santa Barbara’s Sustainability & Resilience Department has ...

Some minor street flooding took place during the recent storm. Areas including Gutierrez Street and the Funk Zone had ...

While most homes in the recent burn scars of the Palisades, Eaton, Hurst and Sunset fires are under an evacuation warning due ...

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The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued a flood advisory for Santa Barbara County effective until 8:00 p.m. Thursday, ...

Officials in the Golden State are urging beachgoers to avoid the water in several locations across Los Angeles , Ventura and ...

With heavy rain bringing the risk of dangerous debris flows, the Los Angeles Fire Department has announced evacuation warnings — and mandatory evacuation orders for some specific addresses — in areas ...

Southern California's strongest atmospheric river storm of the winter is arriving Thursday, and it's expected to bring ...

Some Southern California beaches have lifted fire-debris and sewage-related closures and advisories, while the arrival of a ...

The rain will be nothing like the relatively modest storms that have brought largely beneficial rain to Southern California ...

Over the last few weeks, we’ve received many questions from community members about the availability of local water sources to ...