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Montecito - the California town home to Britains Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle - was among those ordered evacuated on Monday as torrential rain hit the sate.

A storm is ravaging the coast of California, and evacuation orders are in effect. Five years to the DAY after the devastating Montecito mudslide, which

Monday evening’s Raising Our Light ceremony to remember those lost in the 1/9 Debris Flow, is canceled.

California Highway Patrol has closed Highway 154 from both directions as of 6:26 a.m.

Experts are monitoring local burn scar areas, such as land impacted by the Thomas and Alisal fires, ahead of the incoming storm beginning early Wednesday morning.

New wildfire detection cameras have been installed on Santa Barbara Tv Hill overlooking the Santa Barbara front providing early detection services to the community by the Montecito Fire Department.

Five policy shifts could help communities harden their homes against fire danger.

Carpinteria-Summerland firefighters were on scene of a partially submerged Tesla in the ocean around the 800 block of San Point Road in Carpinteria Monday.

Several agencies up and down the Central Coast participated in California's Great ShakeOut earthquake drill on Thursday morning.

MONTECITO, Calif. – Montecito Fire crews and Santa Barbara Search and Rescue rescued a pair of hikers from Romero Canyon Trail on Wednesday evening after they started to feel symptoms of heat exhaustion, according to the Montecito Fire Protection District.