It's budget season for local governments across California, the time of year when reporters typically struggle with their congenital...

By Cheri Rae Dean Bragonier, an East Coast literacy advocate, decided to raise awareness about dyslexia a few years ago by swimming more...

Some of Oprah Winfrey's neighbors are raising questions, not to mention holy hell, over the installation of a boulder wall on her...

By Ewa Cook UCSB Correspondent Deltopia 2023 is being widely panned on campus and the streets of Isla Vista this week -- its wide-open,...

In a special Angry Poodle edition of Newsmakers TV, Nick Welsh and the genial host briefly belay local issues in order to acknowledge...

A prominent Democratic operative urged a crowd of politically active women in Santa Barbara last Friday to "stop sugarcoating" the...

Deborah Sampson Garrett disguised herself as a man so she could fight in the Continental Army, and later shocked proper society by giving...

Like namesake and fellow doomsayer Jeremiah, the genial host of Newsmakers TV on this week's edition warns of impending doom, seeing...

By Melinda Burns Concerned Carpinterians, a cannabis watchdog group that has sought to rein in the greenhouse “grows” that have...

By Lanny Ebenstein Measure T -- the June 2018 ballot measure to regulate and tax cannabis in Santa Barbara County -- isn't working....

Suddenly and shockingly, more than 500 tenants in three I.V. apartment complexes received eviction notices this week, bringing sharp and...

By Cheri Rae and Monie de Wit On March 9, Santa Barbara Unified School District officials made a quiet, but extremely consequential...

Tax collections from pot, hailed as financial salvation by politicians who recklessly transformed Santa Barbara into the undisputed...

By Melinda Burns The ongoing downturn in tax revenues from the cannabis industry in Santa Barbara stands out as the dark spot in an...

Demands by state government that local jurisdictions build huge amounts of new housing have triggered debate and dispute over a host of...

It's a full-house, all-star edition of Newsmakers TV, as six - 6, count 'em, 6 - of Santa Barbara's top journalists chew over, assay and...

By Hap Freund Despite cold and inhospitable weather, 168 cable access directors, producers, board members and TV equipment vendors...

In a special "Ask the Mayor" edition of Newsmakers TV, Randy Rowse on Friday said there is no "trend" of gang violence in Santa Barbara...

(Editor's note: In recent, dueling columns published in this space, former Mayor and current Planning Commissioner Sheila Lodge and...

The nation's ludicrous Culture Wars descended upon Santa Barbara last weekend, as the evangelical wing of the local Republican Party...