calcoastnews

One special arrival in Santa Barbara is certainly bringing ‘pride’ to its parents.

A lion cub was just born at Santa Barbara Zoo.

The planned Central Coast launch of a satellite intended to help us improve monitoring of climate change has been postponed for more than a week.

The Sentinel-6 satellite had been set for liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force base for November 10th.

Authorities are looking for two men for what they say was a hate crime attack in Ventura County.

A man and a woman were walking on Spring Road in Moorpark Tuesday night when they were approached by the men. 

Voters in one South Coast community faced a slew of issues ranging from whether to raise the city’s sales tax to how government agencies conduct meetings.

Oxnard voter approved Measure E, a 1.5% percent sales tax hike to beef up public safety and social service programs.  

Two familiar faces on the Central and South Coasts will be returning to Washington, D.C. for new congressional terms, but a third race in the region is still up in the air.

24th District Democratic Congressman Salud Carbajal of Santa Barbara easily won re-election.  Carbajal defeated Republican challenger Andy Caldwell by a 62% to 38% margin.  It will be Carbajal’s third term in office.

Environmental groups are applauding the decision by an oil company to drop plans for a major oil well expansion project on the Central Coast.

Terracore Energy wanted to add hundreds of new wells to the existing Cat Canyon oil field southeast of Santa Maria.  The proposal included using a steam injection process to help extract oil.

Part of a South Coast highway is going to be closed this coming weekend as work continues on a major repaving project.

Caltrans officials say the 55-hour shutdown affects parts of Highway 23 in Thousand Oaks.

Three new coronavirus related deaths have been reported on the Central and South Coasts.

Ventura, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo Counties each had an additional death over the weekend. Ventura County has had 167 deaths, Santa Barbara County 129, and San Luis Obispo County 33.  The total for the region now stands at 329 deaths.