The Latest Breaking News from Montecito

The record rainfall in California has soaked its steep hillsides, causing hundreds of landslides and heightening the threat to communities

MONTECITO, Calif. — In the town of Montecito, where the median home costs $5 million, Bentley drivers leave their car windows open as they hop out to grab something from the market and residents refer to Gwyneth Paltrow as simply "Gwyneth," it's hard to imagine anything ever goes wrong here.…

Death toll likely to rise in California as deluge and flash floods set to continue

LOS ANGELES — Residents across California’s Central Coast were allowed to return home Tuesday following a torrential storm that swamped the region with eye-popping amounts of rain and choked many roadways with mud and debris.

Rivers of muddy water from heavy rainfall raced through city streets as thousands of people evacuated homes downhill from California’s wildfire burn scars amid atmospheric river storms drenching the state in early January 2023.

More than 100,000 customers were without power and millions were under flood warnings as powerful storms continue to hit California. The death toll from recent storms is now up to 17.

The child's mother was driving a truck when it became stranded in water near Paso Robles

Succession of storms continue to batter southern and central California

‘We need to be nicer to mother nature,’ TV host warns

The US talk show host and comedian posted a video of herself from near her home, which she shares with spouse Portia de Rossi, beside a rushing river.

Ellen DeGeneres gives online update on the situation in the celebrity-laden area as 10,000 people are told to leave home as storms continue to batter the US coastline