The bells of Old Mission Santa Barbara rang out Sunday morning to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1925 earthquake that ...

Santa Barbara, CA, May 20, 2025 – At 6:44 am on June 29, 1925, a powerful earthquake devastated Santa Barbara, taking the lives of eleven people and destroying or damaging much of downtown.It was a ...

The mission has endured some of Santa Barbara's most horrific natural disasters including the 1925 Earthquake. The 6.3 magnitude earthquake toppled both bell towers and destroyed much of the mission.

At 6:42 a.m. on June 29, 1925, the city of Santa Barbara was heavily damaged by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake. Thirteen people were killed.

UC Santa Barbara’s ROTC Color Guard presents the flags during the Memorial Day ceremony at the Santa Barbara Cemetery on Monday. Credit: Daniel Green / Noozhawk photo Capt. J. Charles Plumb, in ...

Friday 1) 3 p.m. Sweet stroll. Start your visit in the city of Santa Barbara with a cone at Rori’s, a decadent ice creamery in the Santa Barbara Public Market, which serves organic ice cream in ...

When an earthquake nearly destroyed the mission, and much of the city, in 1925, local visionaries insured that Santa Barbara would rebuild and rebound in the same design. And did it ever.

The first anniversary of the scuba boat fire that killed 34 people off Southern California was commemorated Wednesday at Santa Barbara Harbor.

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 6/3/2014, page A4) A story about the memorial service for Weihan “David” Wang incorrectly reported the living arrangement of three victims in the Isla Vista ...