Carpinteria loves to call itself the “home of the world’s safest beach” and although that may be true, my wife and I discovered that Carpinteria, on a blustery spring day, had much more to offer than ...

Visitors book campsites months in advance as the popular beachfront campground reaches capacity for the holiday weekend.

CARPINTERIA, Calif. -- The Carpinteria Noon Rotary Club was out Friday, surveying the beach for erosion and other environmental changes. The measured Carpinteria State Beach at two locations, near ...

Elias Sprague (left) sees his idea become a reality to have baskets ready at the beach for anyone who needs to go on a clean ...

Carpinteria Vice Mayor Monica Solorzano, center, who as a member of the Carpinteria Ad Hoc Seal Advisory Committee voted against the recommended three-year beach closure to protect seals, explains ...

David B. Goldman is a freelance writer in Santa Barbara CARPINTERIA — I can’t figure out what exactly makes this place seem like one of Southern California’s last old-fashioned beach towns. Maybe it’s ...

For the first time since 1960, the western snowy plover has successfully nested on Carpinteria State Beach. The single nest with three eggs was discovered by scientists on May 10 and roped and caged ...

There's not as many sun-baked stars lolling on the sand as there once was but the show at the seal sanctuary on a Carpinteria beach goes on. Six years ago, more than 100 newborn harbor seals were ...