Montecito Ca News Today

Trying to understand the allure of a place that’s home to Oprah, the self-exiled royals, a celebrity juicer, Katy Perry’s dad — and the New American Dream.

The music megastars are the newest members of the club. Here’s a sampling of some others.

Life in California often requires navigating the edges of natural beauty and natural disaster. On the fifth anniversary of a catastrophe, residents had to flee again.

From the royal family to the House of Repesentatives, it was a strange week.

The evacuation order came five years after a mudslide killed 23 people and destroyed homes in the Santa Barbara County community.

The new Netflix series portrays the ex-royals with a soft filter and a lack of surprise. But some will still find it aspirational.

A new study found that the dangerous pairing of disasters may become more common in the American West as rains trigger runaway surges of mud and debris in areas damaged by wildfire.

Home prices in the state far outpaced the national average, with outlying suburbs and smaller metro areas seeing the most significant increases.

A midcentury-modern house in Palm Springs, a 1929 Spanish-style home in Los Angeles and a neo-Classical retreat in Montecito.

Good morning. Today, we’re starting with a dispatch by Manny Fernandez from Montecito, the edenic Santa Barbara County enclave where — yes, of course, that one — took place: On a sun-soaked strip of shops and restaurants in one of the most high-end places in America, the only sign anything was amiss Monday was a subtle one. A wire-service photographer, with two cameras dangling from his neck. It was the day after The Interview: Oprah Winfrey’s exclusive sit-down with Princ...