Dean Fioresi is a web producer for CBS Los Angeles. He covers breaking news throughout Southern California. When he's not writing about local events, he enjoys focusing on sports and entertainment.

A Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office report finds overall crime down more than 9%, but violent offenses increased in some ...

With the average rent of a one-bedroom apartment in Isla Vista exceeding $2,000, some look to alternatives in the form of a ...

Communities across Santa Barbara County will pause to remember the true purpose of Memorial Day with multiple ceremonies on Monday.  Often treated as the ...

This story was originally published in the Santa Barbara Green Guide, a collaboration between the Independent and Bluedot ...

One year after going one-and-done at the Big West Conference Championships, the UC Santa Barbara baseball team got off to a ...

The Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table will celebrate the year in sports at its annual Evening with the Athletes Event on ...

The power of collective giving was on full display at the Lobero Theatre when the Women’s Fund of Santa Barbara awarded a ...

Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. Julie previously reported for the Beach Reporter, ...

Wildlife officials have tranquilized a bear that was seen roaming a neighborhood near Hansen Dam in Pacoima on Monday afternoon. Sky5 was over the area of Terra Bella Street and Borden Avenue at noon, ...

A bear was spotted in a San Fernando Valley neighborhood on Monday, May 4. Aerial images from SkyFOX showed the bear going through yards in a residential area along Terra Bella Street. The bear was ...

PACOIMA, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Firefighters battled a large fire at an auto salvage yard in Pacoima on Sunday evening. AIR7 flew over the commercial building lot on Montague Street, just south of ...