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Erosion is worsening along the California coastline, significantly increasing the risk to coastal homes.  The Isla Vista ...
Look out Panda Express. There's some competition in town. Chop Chinese Food UCSB has opened in Isla Vista, and it's the kind ...
ISLA VISTA, Calif. - The best deals of the year for some shoppers will come this weekend in Isla Vista. The annual 'GIVE' sale takes place as a way to sell off all the leftover furniture and ...
Only 50 homes in Isla Vista are owner-occupied, and only a handful of rental properties are owned by Isla Vistans. About 60 percent of Isla Vista’s owner-investors live elsewhere on the South Coast.
“Isla Vista at night has magical charm, but it can also feel like a beautiful nightmare,” said Bryan Lares, a resident and UCSB senior, drawing an analogy to the story of Pinocchio, a good boy who is ...
Longtime Isla Vista resident Pegeen Soutar, who graduated from UCSB in the early 1980s and stayed, remembers when the Halloween festival featured costume contests, houses with themed decorations ...
Reporting from Isla Vista, Calif. — Elliot Rodger enjoyed sunsets, mountain vistas, retro pop music. He said it time and again: The world was a magical, beautiful place, but only in stark ...
Isla Vista, which is centered on university life with outdoor cafes, bike shops, burger joints, sororities and fraternities, was shrouded in fog and unusually quiet Saturday.
Isla Vista is gearing up for Deltopia, the annual unsanctioned street party that brings in thousands of students and visitors during the first weekend of UC Santa Barbara’s spring quarter.. In ...
Isla Vista is also getting a better reputation than the way it was viewed years ago as one of the biggest party schools in the west. Abergel said, ...
In a written report presented to the UC Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees in November, a special committee charged with advising the university on issues facing the Isla Vista community ...
Last Friday he began a bloody spree across the college community of Isla Vista, ultimately killing six students from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and injuring 13 others, before ...