The Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival (SBSFF) will honor Matt Moore of Rincon Designs, who spent nearly 60 years shaping ...

A Santa Barbara surfing icon, a standout goofy-footer in the Rincon-centric world of regular-footers, an early adopter of the shortboard revolution alongside master shaper Al Merrick, a filmmaker in ...

Celebrating its fifth year, the Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival will honor surfing history and the city’s surfing culture, and support ocean conservation ...

The 805 has a new place of pilgrimage for anyone wishing to learn how our local surf scene came to be. Whether waves are breaking at Rincon or not, locals ...

At dusk, in Santa Barbara, the air cools. Tourists and residents commence their nightly ritual of bar-hopping and carousing. Live music echoes. Craft cocktails, sumptuous small bites are served. The ...

The body of a surfer was discovered in Santa Barbara on Thursday. According to reports, just after 1:30pm, authorities were called regarding a surfboard floating 100 yards off Refugio Beach. A rescue ...

The Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival is the ultimate celebration of surf culture and Santa Barbara’s rich surf history. The festival started in 2019 with the idea to combine the love of cinema, ocean ...

Forecasters issued a high surf advisory for beaches across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties warning of dangerous rip currents and waves reaching up to 10 to 15 feet Friday. Larger breaking waves of ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – A 34-year-old Santa Barbara man was arrested after he allegedly robbed and vandalized a surf shop on State Street Sunday. On March 9, 2025, around 5:21 p.m., dispatchers ...

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have recently characterized these low-frequency signals to track breaking ocean waves ...