Amid 63 Covid "active outbreaks" in the county this week -- multiple cases at a single site -- the Board of Supervisors, the Santa...

Amazing but true, Meagan Harmon has served on SB City Council for two-and-a-half years but - before Wednesday night -- never before had...

During last week's mayor's race forum, Cathy Murillo ended a blithe answer to a question about all the recent City Hall turmoil and...

For the first time in the 2021 race, the six candidates for mayor of Santa Barbara appeared in the same campaign forum on Friday, in what...

Alexis Tande, co-founder of "The Whip SB," joins the panel this week to talk about how the social media start-up is working to boost the...

(Update: This interview was conducted the day before the deadly August 26 suicide bombing attack outside Kabul airport, which killed more...

The buzz abides. Four years ago, Cathy Murillo won key endorsements from the Santa Barbara Democratic Women's club and the Women's...

For two decades, Starshine Roshell has delighted Santa Barbara readers with her finely crafted weekly column, loaded with laughs,...

Mayor Cathy Murillo and challengers James Joyce, Randy Rowse, Deborah Schwartz and Mark Whitehurst all have accepted an invitation for a...

Antediluvian male chauvinist blather spouted by developer Ed St. George last week has galvanized women community leaders while generating...

Just two months ago, sharp declines in Covid cases and the success of vaccines against the virus at last augured a normal school year for...

This week's episode of "Newsmakers: Journal of the Vaccine Year" focuses largely on the resurgence of high numbers of Covid infections...

By Melinda Burns Two years after Helios Dayspring was caught breaking Santa Barbara County zoning and state water quality laws --...

Cathy Murillo's chances of winning a new, five-year, term got a boost Tuesday, with official word that the field for mayor of Santa...

Nick Masuda's two-decade career as a professional journalist has coincided with the transformation of the media business, and he's had to...

By Kate Ford and Laura Capps As members of the Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) board, we understand that our paramount...

Three months before Election Day, challengers Randy Rowse and Deborah Schwartz both are outpacing Santa Barbara Mayor Cathy Murillo in...

A preventable fifth wave of Covid infections rose in Santa Barbara County this week, as public health officials decried a "pandemic of...

For the first time in the race, the three leading challengers to Mayor Cathy Murillo met face-to-face on Wednesday (virtually anyway), as...

With just 98 shopping days left until Santa Barbara's high-stakes Nov. 3 city election - and only 49 before the suddenly kinetic Sept. 14...