Leaders of South Coast school districts on Thursday shrugged off President Trump's sternly-worded demand that schools nationwide...

SB City Council member Mike Jordan brought his brand of plain-spoken candor to Newsmakers on Tuesday, pushing back against efforts by...

The new Grand Jury report chronicling the origin of Santa Barbara County’s contentious cannabis law documents for the historic record a...

The Newsmakers TV gang assembled remotely on Friday for a pre-holiday, remote celebration of the First Amendment's sacred Freedom of the...

By Melinda Burns Signing off on a historic deal with its wealthiest – and thirstiest – neighbor, the Santa Barbara City Council this week...

California is one of only five states without a law to track, monitor and prohibit police departments from hiring officers who have been...

Former City Council member Randy Rowse and retired Fire Chief Pat McElroy between them spent eight decades in and around city government,...

First: Ben and Jerry's. Now: Hap and Jerry's. Newsmakers announces we've hereby become the latest, ahem, global brand to halt our...

If it's Friday, it's Newsmakers TV: Delaney Smith, Josh Molina and Nick Welsh are back with Jerry for another inside look at the week in...

By Melinda Burns In a historic move, the Montecito Water District board voted unanimously on Thursday to “drought-proof” the wealthy...

SB City Council member Eric Friedman Zoomed in Thursday for a conversation that ranged from an in-the-weeds policy discussion about the...

Amid the anti-racism protests led by Black Lives Matter activists, UCSB scholar and staff member Aaron Jones recently co-chaired an...

(Today's post is reported and written by Melinda Burns). The Montecito Water District board, promising to “drought-proof” Montecito and...

Old friends of the program Laura Capps and Dale Francisco, who last joined the Newsmakers TV panel in long-ago pre-pandemic days, dropped...

In a blow to venerable community media center TVSB. a Superior Court judge has rejected its legal challenge to an agreement that divides...

Hilda Maldonado, in her first interview since being named Superintendent of the Santa Barbara Unified School District, said that the...

(Today's update on Santa Barbara County's ongoing conflict over cannabis cultivation is reported and written by Melinda Burns). The...

"Newsmakers TV: The Quarantine Season" is back with another week-that-was, focusing this time on efforts by Black Lives Matter and other...

(Newsmakers is posting this special report, reported and written by Marianne Lavelle, courtesy of Inside Climate News, where it was...

(Reporting and story by Melinda Burns) The county’s $1.2 billion budget for the 2020-21 fiscal year, beginning July 1, includes an...