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CARPINTERIA, Calif. – Since Jan. 17, Santa Barbara County Flood Control has been moving storm debris from Carpinteria watershed basins to beach reclamation projects at Carpinteria City Beach. Since ...

CARPINTERIA, Calif. -- The Carpinteria Noon Rotary Club was out Friday, surveying the beach for erosion and other environmental changes. The measured Carpinteria State Beach at two locations, near ...

There's not as many sun-baked stars lolling on the sand as there once was but the show at the seal sanctuary on a Carpinteria beach goes on. Six years ago, more than 100 newborn harbor seals were ...

Carpinteria, a small town some 12 miles outside Santa Barbara, says it is the home of “the world’s safest beach,” and for 90 years newspaper adverts have boasted of its clean, wide sands and lack of ...

David B. Goldman is a freelance writer in Santa Barbara CARPINTERIA — I can’t figure out what exactly makes this place seem like one of Southern California’s last old-fashioned beach towns. Maybe it’s ...

Jacob is your community news reporter covering the Santa Maria Valley. Over the weekend, a dead whale washed up on Padaro Beach in Carpinteria, drawing visitors to the shoreline to check it out for ...

Diesel Slade of Carpinteria Junior Lifeguards outsprints the competition in the “A” Division Beach Flags. Slade took first place. (Barry Punzal / Noozhawk photo) Carpinteria Junior Lifeguards made a ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department, alongside the Carpinteria-Summerland and Montecito Fire Departments, are responding to an ocean rescue off-shore from Carpinteria State Beach. According to ...