Credit: Santa Barbara County Fire Department photo Two men were seriously injured Saturday afternoon when their vehicle plunged over the side of Gibraltar Road in the mountains above Santa Barbara.

This week’s storm affected part of West Mountain Drive in Santa Barbara, closing a portion of the road. The closure is between El Cielito Road and Coyote Road. Public works crews from the city ...

West Mountain Drive between El Cielito Road and Coyote Road has been closed to through traffic indefinitely due to an undermined roadway the City of Santa Barbara announced Thursday.

Santa Barbara will soon say hello to a new Gibraltar Road. For the first time since the 1940s, the notoriously steep mountain passage is scheduled for a full repaving. Though the six weeks of work ...

Public Works Department will clear several South Coast debris basins after rainfall ...

In 2022, the Santa Barbara County Road Commissioner posted notices to property owners along East Mountain Drive to remove unpermitted road encroachments placed in the public right of way including ...

At the nearby Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (1212 Mission Canyon Rd.; tel. 1 805 682 4726; www.sbbg.org), five and a half miles (8.9 kilometers) of paths wind among a thousand species of California ...

Encounters with wildlife in the mountains above Santa Barbara are not uncommon. Spend enough time, and eventually you are going to see a coyote or a bobcat, a rattlesnake, maybe even a mountain ...

Encounters with wildlife in the mountains above Santa Barbara are not uncommon. Spend enough time, and eventually you are going to see a coyote or a bobcat, a rattlesnake, maybe even a mountain ...