J.D. Vance' s slick, smug and dissembling performance in this week's Vice Presidential debate dazzled much of the national political...

J.D. Vance outperformed Tim Walz for most of Tuesday night's vice presidential debate -- but the Republican's dodgy refusal to admit that...

Amid the fog of political war, one thing is certain about the 2024 presidential election: win or lose, Donald Trump will declare victory....

By Dale Francisco One fall day in the late 1970s in Pennsylvania, as I knelt on the roof of a new home and hammered nails into plywood in...

By Melinda Burns   A county plan for tackling the skunky smell of pot in the Carpinteria Valley was presented to the Planning Commission...

Some of Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse' s lefty city council colleagues like to portray the eight, shut-down blocks of State Street as a...

By Alexi Koseff CalMatters For California political observers, the housing plan that Kamala Harris recently unveiled may have caused a...

Two sets of parents, whose children attended Santa Barbara Charter School while now-fugitive teacher Steven Schapansky allegedly made...

The clogged and choking nightmare traffic now afflicting Old Town Goleta rivals the dystopian congestion of huge cities , from London to...

Kelly McAdoo, Santa Barbara's recently-arrived City Administrator, jokes that the 24/7 demands and turbulent urgency of running a...

Kamala Harris quickly sought to capitalize on her dominating debate performance against Donald Trump this week, rallying supporters in...

If it was a fight, they would have stopped it. Vice President Kamala Harris triumphed over Donald Trump on Tuesday night, with an...

Amid all the polls, punditry, and  psychopathology , America’s 2024 presidential campaign boils down to this: If Kamala Harris wins,...

Santa Barbara city and county voters confront a raft of proposed tax increases and new bond debt schemes on the Nov. 5 ballot, as local...

In partnership with TV Santa Barbara and the "Santa Barbara Talks" podcast, Newsmakers this week sponsored the first City Council...

The best-selling book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, posits that...

Amid chants of “we’re not going back,” Kamala Devi Harris accepted the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday night, vowing a “new...

Speakers at the Democratic National Convention spent many hours this week denouncing Donald Trump, praising "joy" in politics, and...

Rep. Salud Carbajal on Tuesday swiped at Donald Trump as a draft dodger and denounced his Republican running mate J.D. Vance's "insults...

Framing the election as hope versus fear, Democratic speakers at the first night of their national convention, sounded themes of freedom,...