Customers are picking up the $1.7 billion tab after the utility’s equipment was linked to the wildfire and resulting flooding seven years ago.

Climate change is an intensifier — a force that amplifies and worsens existing conditions. It increases the probability that extreme conditions will compound and become unprecedented.

Schools are beginning to see a small spike in enrollment coinciding with the number of families seeking temporary shelter — ...

SANTA BARBARA – Just days before ending his 24-year tenure as president and CEO of Direct Relief, Thomas Tighe was still so ...

For Edison, this is reminiscent of the situations it faced with the 2017 Thomas Fire (and subsequent mudslides) that burned through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties and the 2018 Woolsey Fire ...

In January 2018, a month after the 280,000-acre Thomas Fire ripped through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, heavy rain loosened mud and debris in parts of the Santa Ynez Mountains that had been ...

In December 2017, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties lost over 281,000 acres of land as a result of the Thomas Fire (archived link). Below is a screenshot comparison between the false X post (left ...

UC Santa Barbara’s location provides a refuge from wildfires. The university protrudes into the ocean, which limits the ...

One paper on the 440-square mile (1,140 square kilometer) Thomas Fire in Southern California found that woodland ash that fell in the Santa Barbara Channel in 2017 promoted the growth of plankton.

SANTA BARBARA, Calif – Santa Barbara Humane announced ... As well as sheltering over 1,500 animals during the Thomas Fire and Montecito Mudslides. "We are heartbroken for the individuals and ...

Santa Barbara Humane has taken in 13 dogs so far ... Burns added that many people in the area remember the 2017 Thomas Fire and the 2018 Montecito debris flows, which happened seven years ago ...