Assemblyman Gregg Hart, center, and environmental leaders celebrate the expansion of the California Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies Program on Tuesday at Santa Barbara's Sea Center, next to a ...

In Yosemite National Park, granite walls rise straight from the valley floor. El Capitan is the park’s most legendary cliff — about 3,000 feet of vertical stone that draws climbers from around the ...

NEW YORK, Oct 15 (Reuters) - A California judge on Tuesday ruled against Houston-based oil company Sable Offshore's (SOC.N), opens new tab request to lift the state's cease and desist order on repairs ...

When a Texas oil company first announced controversial plans to reactivate three drilling rigs off the coast of Santa Barbara County, investor presentations boasted that the venture had "massive ...

A climber filmed BASE jumpers leaping illegally from Yosemite’s El Capitan during the government shutdown. Charles Winstead said he saw more than eight people jumping over several days. Park staffing ...

Santa Clarita residents looking for a festive Halloween outing this October can head to the historic El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, where the annual “Spooktacular” season has returned with themed ...

UC Santa Barbara physicists John Martinis and Michel Devoret have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics. Selected for the honor alongside UC Berkeley physicist and former advisor John Clarke, ...

A popular Alaskan climber fell to his death from Yosemite National Park's El Capitan, marking the third death in the park this summer. Balin Miller, 23, died in a climbing accident Wednesday, his ...

Balin Miller, a noted mountain and rock climber, fell to his death this week at the El Capitan rock formation in California’s Yosemite National Park, his mother said. The 23-year-old’s death was ...