Increased COVID-19 cases have been reported in various congregate living facilities in Santa Barbara County, including an H-2A housing facility in Santa Maria and three skilled nursing facilities.

SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- The City of Santa Maria hosted two distribution locations Wednesday morning for free at-home COVID-19 test kits. Supplies at both sites were all handed out within 45 minutes of ...

The county Public Health Department reported the COVID-19-related death of a Santa Maria resident on Wednesday, the 12th death reported in August. The person who died was between the ages of 50 and 69 ...

In one week, Santa Barbara County Public Health officials reported 869 new cases of COVID-19. The case count covers the week of August 20-26. Three new COVID-19 related deaths were also reported ...

The Santa Maria-Bonita School District is changing its COVID-19 testing program, and will have to start charging uninsured community members $55 per test, Interim Superintendent Matthew Beecher said ...

Santa Barbara County health officials distributed COVID-19 tests to the Santa Maria community on Saturday. The distribution event took place at the Santa Maria Health Care Center. The staff came at ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has driven changes in the operation of Santa Barbara County’s Health and Human Services departments that, in many cases, are expected to carry over into the 2021-22 fiscal year, ...

After more than a month in the red tier of the state’s tiered COVID-19 reopening framework, Santa Barbara County advanced to the orange tier on Tuesday, which allows higher indoor capacity for ...

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department has received nearly 57,000 COVID-19 test kits from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a federal healthcare partner. County ...