The Santa Barbara County Grand Jury released a report of its findings about local water resources Friday. The investigative ...

Framed by the Santa Ynez Mountains, this idyllic escape from the city offers an abundance of activities for wildlife lovers, ...

The Santa Ynez River watershed, a once proud and gracefully flowing river, is now reduced to a dry sand bed where water rarely flows; why? The Presidio of Santa Barbara was founded in 1782 at the ...

The recent rains have created many cascading waterfalls and a swollen Santa Ynez River, with more to come with the next round of stormy weather this winter. Already this season, San Marcos Pass ...

The Santa Ynez Wilderness is a wildlife-rich study of the upper reaches of the Santa Ynez River by Michael Love, who interviews experts in ecology, geology, and anthropology to paint a vivid portrait ...

The Santa Ynez River feeds Cachuma Lake, and, as an avid paddler, I’ve always heard that it needs a minimum of 3,000 cubic feet of water per second (cfs) to be passable by kayak. That Friday morning ...

Despite the pronouncements from Lompoc City Councilman Jim Mosby, the Santa Ynez River estuary has not been opened to public recreation. (Len Wood / Noozhawk photo) Posing in a kayak in the Santa ...

Feb 16, 2018 Feb 16, 2018 Updated Feb 23, 2018 Efforts to create sustainability plans for the Santa Ynez River Valley and San Antonio Creek Valley groundwater basins are moving forward with the ...

Caltrans will perform maintenance work on Highway 1 near the Santa Ynez River Bridge near Lompoc beginning Tuesday, June 3 ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department tweeted ... County Sheriff's Office with a body recovery along the Santa Ynez River near Santa Lucia Canyon Rd. in Lompoc Valley. Public information ...

Santa Barbara County Sheriff's officials say a body found Sunday in the Santa Ynez River in Lompoc has been identified as a missing 14-year-old boy. Alberto Rafael Cabrera Corona was reported ...

A Lompoc teenager whose body was found in the Santa Ynez River bed earlier this year drowned, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office Coroner's Bureau. The body of Alberto Rafael ...