The ongoing conflict over parking near the Hot Springs Trailhead, featuring county government's bid to muscle Montecito neighbors rich...

By Melinda Burns Five former North County cannabis operators are scheduled for Superior Court hearings this month in two separate cases,...

By Suzanne Cohen and Laura Capps Rep. Katie Porter, the whip-smart, whiteboard-wielding Democrat from the longtime Republican bastion of...

The Newsmakers TV panel this week examines the local impact and implications of two far-reaching and consequential U.S. Supreme Court...

By Melinda Burns This summer, cannabis growers will likely hit the county’s 186-acre cap on zoning permits in the Carpinteria Valley, now...

Rep. Salud Carbajal's passage in the House of "red flag" legislation, a gun safety prescription now included in the Senate framework for...

In the early 1970s, Santa Barbara Police Chief Barney Melekian was unhappily working in a bank, when he experienced an epiphany while...

After a year of work by the Community Formation Commission, tasked with recommending a plan for civilian review of the SB Police...

Hilda Maldonado says the biggest mistake she made during the just-completed school year was expecting that, after a year of pandemic...

Five days before the June 7 primary, an otherwise jejune campaign season boils down to one key question in the two races -- 2, count 'em,...

Nearly 300 people watched the first and only campaign forum in the race for County Superintendent of Schools live online Tuesday night,...

By Melinda Burns Amid plummeting prices for cannabis “flower” in the Golden State, Santa Barbara County is likely to collect only $10.8...

Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido and Christy Lozano, the PE teacher challenging her in the June 7 primary,...

Raucous wrangling and rowdy slanging perfused this week's episode of Newsmakers TV, amid clashing views of the loud and growing protest...

By Melinda Burns Two years after roundly rejecting the idea, the county Board of Supervisors this week voted 3-2 to tighten its...

By Cheri Rae and Monie deWit Children with crooked teeth have nothing to smile about. Neither do children who can’t read. Both conditions...

Less than three weeks before the June 7 election, Santa Barbara's political landscape is replete with ennui and boredom, largely due to...

By Melinda Burns The bulldozers are back at Randall and East Valley roads this month, working on the final phase of Montecito’s newest...

(Editor's note: Hilda Maldonado's first day of work as Superintendent of the Santa Barbara Unified School District was July 1, 2020, in...

In the past 25 years, Scott Wilson crafted a terrific career at The Washington Post: Foreign correspondent posted to Latin America and...