Democratic challengers were on the threshold of capturing two Republican-held Senate seats in Georgia on Tuesday night, an astonishing...

On Wednesday, Donald Trump's servile, deadender stooges in Congress will seek to overturn the November presidential election. Republican...

Reflecting on the extraordinary events of 2020 brings to mind that old Zen joke: The pessimist says: "It can't get worse." The optimist...

In decades to come, "2020" will emerge as a new major in history departments around the globe, as graduate students focus their studies...

Santa Barbara school district officials reported the first, distressing data about the impact of pandemic-induced distance learning this...

By Melinda Burns For the past three years, the “skunky” stench of marijuana swirling around Carpinteria, penetrating homes, schools,...

Jumpstarting the 2021 campaign, Planning Commissioner Deborah Schwartz said Wednesday that she is a candidate for mayor of Santa Barbara....

Not since Covid first struck in March have the economic, political and social impacts of the pandemic so dominated day-to-day life in...

After losing the 1896 presidential race, Democrat William Jennings Bryan began the American tradition of swiftly and graciously...

Santa Barbara County faces a new round of shutdowns, as Governor Gavin Newsom this week issued yet another set of Covid orders, amid a...

By Melinda Burns Mike Hoover, a Santa Barbara geologist, wants to remind us of the Medieval Drought, the epic dry period that held...

The first biography of Senator Kamala Harris will publish a week before she's sworn in as the nation's 49th Vice President next month,...

Because it's 2020, we can't claim to be surprised that Thanksgiving's prime time NFL match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the...

Sixteen days after Joe Biden's victory became clear, Donald Trump's government finally faced reality on Monday -- even as its leader...

(Editor's note: It was 57 years ago this week when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, followed two days later by the murder of...

Gavin Newsom's latest edict, slapping a 10 p.m.-5 a.m. curfew on more than 90 percent of Californians, has been greeted with annoyance,...

You read it here first. Business consultant Tom Widroe, former aide to prominent local Republican officeholders, is taking over as...

Long before Gavin Newsom became California's 40th governor, political writers of a certain age bestowed him with a nickname: "Prince...

It was just last year -- it only seems like 10 years ago - that Gwyn Lurie led a local investor-group purchase of the venerable Montecito...

The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris carries large political impacts, implications and consequences for California, not only in...