Can pickleball cure what’s ailing Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade?

Santa Monica’s once-bustling Third Street Promenade is dotted with empty storefronts. An indoor pickleball club could point to creative ways for filling them.

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Wind-driven Hollister fire in Santa Barbara County grows to 100 acres

The fire, which authorities estimate could grow to 500 to 1,000 acres, was burning through dense chaparral

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Fire in Santa Barbara triggers evacuation of TV newsroom and neighborhood

A vegetation fire broke out Thursday night in Santa Barbara, forcing evacuations of a television newsroom and the surrounding neighborhood.

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False alarm: Caltech staffer accidentally sends alert for large 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake

A staffer at Caltech mistakenly sent out an alert for a large magnitude-6.8 earthquake off the Santa Barbara coast — from 1925.

The error happened when someone tried to correct the exact location of the Prohibition-era Santa Barbara earthquake, which happened 92 years ago.

The erroneous report…

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Donald Trump takes center stage in a Santa Clarita State Assembly race attack ad

Essential Politics: New law will allow a year’s worth of birth control pills, police chiefs oppose Prop 63 gun efforts Sept. 26, 2016, 3 a.m. This is Essential Politics, our daily feed on California government and politics news. Here’s what we’re watching:Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation on…
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Home of the Day: A modern oasis in Santa Barbara

Dramatic mountain and ocean views are on full display from the vantage of this newly built modern-style home on more than two acres in Santa Barbara. Clean lines, walls of floor-to-ceiling glass and exposed steel beams lend a polished look to more than 2,500 square feet of loft-style living space.


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