Pandas once roamed a vast swath of China, along with parts of northern Myanmar and Vietnam, but human encroachment and climate change shrank the habitat of the bamboo-munching bears to just six ...

Project Camp runs through Friday from 9 am to 3 pm at the Santa Barbara Zoo. Spaces for kids and volunteers are still open on the Project Camp website.

Credit: Courtesy photo It’s snow joke! On Sunday, Jan. 26, the forecast at the Santa Barbara Zoo calls for snow, sledding, and a day full of frosty fun at the annual Snow Leopard Festival ...

Zoo Lights at the Santa Barbara Zoo is a wonderfully creative and beautiful art project. Hundreds of animals and plants crafted in fabric and illuminated with many thousands of colorful lights. I ...

so we expect to be busier now that they're gone," said Elfin Saffer with the Pacific Wave Surf Shop. "It's always hard to see a long-standing business leave downtown Santa Cruz, but we are feeling ...

A line spills out of the ice cream shop. Empty seats at outdoor ... said Kim Freebird, a longtime Santa Cruz resident shopping for a birthday gift for her son. “It’s huge,” she said of ...

A Petaluma-based vintage and vendor market has debuted its first shop in downtown Santa Rosa inside the same space as a local coffee shop. Buck Lucky Collective, owned by Lena Claypool ...

That’s what happened in our family anyway, until this past summer when we explored the Santa Barbara Zoo. Someone had described the Zoo as a “big park ... is considered today to be the “Queen of the ...

Mother Dough Bagels plans to hold a soft opening Saturday for its new shop at 604 Santa Barbara St. in Santa Barbara. “We’ve been heads down, putting all our love and energy into getting the ...

Powerful Santa Ana winds, near hurricane strength at times, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and pushed wildfires into several neighborhoods starting Jan. 7, 2025. Well over 1,000 ...

The United States Postal Service is no stranger to letters to Santa. Every year, the USPS offers its Operation Santa program, where people can “adopt” letters from children from all over the country ...

A pregnant Santa Barbara woman plummeted to her death while hiking in Greece over the holidays. Clara Thomann, 33, fell about 164 feet down a gorge on the Greek island of Crete on Dec. 23 ...