(Latest from Melinda Burns: Her complete report on the latest skirmish in Santa Barbara County's land use wars over cannabis cultivation). The county Plannin...

Delaney Smith, Josh Molina and Nick Welsh join Jerry for Friday's that-was-the-week-that-was Newsmakers TV conversation, featuring the pros and cons feedback...

(Melinda Burns today takes a deep and detailed dive into the policies, politics and people in the middle of Santa Barbara County's ongoing fierce conflict ov...

The current pandemic contingency plan for the Santa Barbara Unified School District foresees a mid-August "hybrid" reopening of schools, with some students i...

Santa Barbara's school board on Tuesday night unanimously selected Hilda Maldonado, a top Los Angeles school administrator whose professional career has focu...

At tonight's virtual meeting, Santa Barbara's school board plans to announce their selection of a new superintendent, who will guide the SB Unified School Di...

Nick Welsh, Delaney Smith and Josh Molina join Jerry for an around-the-horn week-in-review session, breaking down all the latest as Santa Barbara city and co...

"New Economic Development Manager Walks into Santa Barbara Chaos." That was the headline on a profile of Jason Harris, by Josh Molina, two weeks after the ma...

In 2018, Jerry Brown unveiled his final budget as governor with some words of counsel for his successor. “What’s out there is darkness, uncertainty, decline ...

Dr. Raul Ramirez, Assistant Superintendent of Elementary Education for the Santa Barbara Unified School District, will leave his job at the end of the school...

H.D. Palmer has labored and lived through a lot of state budget crises under a lot of California governors. He was there when Gov. Pete Wilson navigated the ...

Few, if any, are as steeped in the history, growth and design of Santa Barbara as Sheila Lodge, the longest-serving mayor in city history, and the first woma...

The county’s just-released, 80-page strategic plan for re-opening from the pandemic shutdown touches on virtually every aspect of community life -- from fune...

On March 5, Delaney Smith, Josh Molina and Nick Welsh joined Mr. Cranky Pants for a special post-election edition of “Newsmakers TV.” Recorded and produced ...

Matt Kettmann, Santa Barbara's most respected food and wine writer, has transformed his beat amid the coronavirus to cover the brutal economic impacts of the...

Gavin Newsom won early praise for aggressive action to curtail the rapid spread of Covid-19 in California -- but now is struggling politically, as cities and...

Delaney Smith possesses all the natural traits needed to succeed as a reporter -- she's sharp, smart, skeptical, driven, persistent and resourceful. What set...

So politically polarized is America amid the coronavirus pandemic that the choice to don or shun a mask in public has become an urgent signifier of tribal af...

Santa Barbara’s County Courthouse may someday reclaim its stature as an enticing and iconic attraction for bridal parties and tourists, but as a workplace ...

Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley checked in via iPad from an undisclosed location near the beach on Tuesday, to talk about how the coronav...