GAVIOTA STATE BEACH, Calif. – “We need to remember how fragile and vulnerable our ocean and our coasts are and in a moment, everything can change," said Linda Krop, Chief Counsel at Environmental ...

State Parks closed dozens of parks across California this week due to storm impacts, including Gaviota State Park, Refugio State Beach and Carpinteria State Beach in southern Santa Barbara County. At ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - It’s a beautiful day at Refugio State Beach. I" came down from Lompoc. I was excited to see the closed sign wasn’t up. And I just wanted to come down … check it out … see what ...

On Sunday, Santa Barbara County (SBC) Fire officials reportedly performed an ocean rescue for a mother and her children at Gaviota Beach. SBC Fire Public Information Officer Scott Safechuck said in a ...

A man who was found dead at the Gaviota State Park beach on Sunday was the suspect in a double homicide in Anaheim. Authorities say the bodies of Maria Ernestina Ramirez, 47, and Efrain ...

Crews are working to remove more than a dozen iconic trees and clean up other damage in two state parks along California’s Central Coast, which was battered by storms in early February. Gaviota State ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. (KABC) -- An evacuation warning is in place in Santa Barbara County due to a wind-driven brush fire that broke out Saturday morning. Crews responded to the Hollister Ranch ...

Santa Barbara residents have been asking Caltrans for wildlife corridor improvements in Gaviota since at least 2019. Protections for the area’s wildlife may finally begin with the completion of a ...

It’s a sunny day, hot in the wide plains and foothills of the Goleta Valley, a welcome surprise this far into November. Ninety degrees in mid-November? Crazy. I’m heading out to the Gaviota Coast for ...