This year, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum marks 25 years of preserving the maritime heritage of the Santa Barbara Channel.

The new pilot project will sell the problematic purples to restaurants or turn them into agricultural products.

Some were family members, taking the three-day trip together to explore the underwater environs of the Santa Barbara Channel Islands. One was a Conception crewmember, who bunked below in the passenger ...

birds and other wildlife in the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary and the Santa Barbara Channel on a Condor Express cruise. Tourgoers describe the guides as highly informative and report ...

Both are great destinations for weekend getaways. We actually stayed in Santa Barbara the night before visiting the Channel Islands one time. California is home to many national parks all over the ...

Just beyond our coastal campus, the Santa Barbara Channel teems with life. Home to acres of giant kelp forests and a diverse cast of marine species, the expanse of ocean between California's southern ...

The NWS Los Angeles/Oxnard CA issued an updated coastal flood advisory at 8:16 p.m. on Sunday valid from Monday 8 a.m. until Tuesday 2 p.m.

Credit: Jeff Maassen photo A new project is underway to restore kelp forests in the Santa Barbara Channel by ... so much kelp decline out of the Channel Islands.” Selkoe said that there used ...

Located off the coast of Southern California, the Channel Islands are known as the "Galápagos of North America." In 1980, five of the eight islands in the archipelago were declared Channel ...