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...

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...