Santa Barbara County firefighters are continuing their work of pile burns in the Painted Cave Road area near Highway 154. The prescribed pile burning will last until December 4, if conditions allow.

Human remains were recovered from an underwater cave near a large island off the California coast and may belong to a diver who went missing in 2020, officials said in a Nov. 14 news release. The ...

A body that was found this month in an underwater cave in Southern California may be that of a scuba diver who vanished two years ago, authorities said Monday. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — A body was found in a cave in Southern California earlier this month and officials think it may be a diver who vanished in 2020. SBCSO said about a week later on Nov. 11, ...

Corrections and clarifications: A previous version of this article listed a different age and hometown for Ryder Sturt. The Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office said Sturt was 31 and from Ventura.

Prescribed pile burning of about 40 treated acres of slash from felled dead trees and brush will be going on May 14-21, the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (APCD) has announced.

According to a news release from the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, a pair of recreational divers notified SBCSO about possible human remains near the ocean floor in an underwater cave on ...