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

By Melinda Burns A business associate of Helios “Bobby” Dayspring, the Central Coast pot grower who pleaded guilty last summer to felony...

The League of Women Voters cancelled a face-off featuring County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido and rival Christy Lozano on the...

A bit of breaking news on this week's edition of Newsmakers TV, with word that Superior Court Judge Donna Geck granted an injunction on...

Physical Education teacher Christy Lozano has mounted a conservative electoral challenge against Santa Barbara County's incumbent...

KEYT’s Jade Martinez-Pogue returns to Newsmakers TV this week to discuss her boffo new series on the dangerous and expensive shortage of...

Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido frames her campaign for re-election as a choice between “bringing folks...

It's an unfathomable mystery why fans of rent control on Santa Barbara's City Council (looking at you Kristen, Meagan and Oscar) didn't...

By Lanny Ebenstein Santa Barbara is the beautiful community that it is because those who have come before us have taken the time to do...

When Les Firestein set out to develop a new architecture and design magazine, he was determined to rise above the existing class of such...

New SB City Council district maps this week revealed a decline in voting-age Latinos on the Westside, adding fuel to the simmering debate...

A failed legal bid to block conservative Christy Lozano from running for county Superintendent of Schools may actually end up helping the...

Not since John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the same day -- July 4, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence...

By Wade Stewart Cowper A danger to democracy is hiding in plain sight right here in Santa Barbara County as voters prepare to cast...

The estimated cost of a City Hall consulting contract for the State Street Master Plan Committee ballooned to $800,000 this week, as the...

Josh Molina and Nick Welsh join the genial host to break down Santa Barbara’s biggest local news stories, in a special week-in-review...

Pass the Red Bull, Maude, it looks like a dozy election season in Santa Barbara. As Friday's deadline passed to register to run for...

By Melinda Burns Santa Barbara County's tax revenue from cannabis cultivation is projected to be only $12.4 million this fiscal year --...

As critical Covid data markers sustained their downward trend this week, Ukraine replaced the pandemic as Global Topic A in Santa...

By Melinda Burns The county Board of Supervisors this week expanded the burgeoning cannabis industry in the North County and Carpinteria...