Kamala Harris "will come back down to Earth sometime," says Mark Z. Barabak, ace political columnist for the Los Angeles Times, adding a...

Poised for a coronation celebration, Kamala Harris is set to accept the Democratic presidential nomination next week, holding a slight...

With all the courtesy and tact of an occupying army, brass hats from Vandenberg Space Force Base this week bullied and browbeat...

If demographics is destiny, Santa Barbara planners, pols and non-profit plotters who endlessly obsess about housing are well-advised to...

The U.S. military's indifference to the environmental impacts of rockets that blast off from Vandenberg Space Force Base keeps...

Joe Biden's unprecedented pullout from his re-election bid was "absolutely" a pure political calculation arising from fears of a...

"You may be the first to do many things," the mother of Vice President Kamala Harris once instructed her daughter. "Make sure you are not...

Santa Barbara County's recent $3.7 million settlement with UCSB over the university's failure to build student housing will help meet...

Joe Biden's unforced error, of engineering an unprecedented, early debate with Donald Trump will rank as "one of the greatest political...

Provocative as ever, Mayor Randy Rowse returned to Newsmakers TV on Friday, setting forth some policy and political arguments sure to...

In a case of the elephant giving birth to the mouse, City Hall last week rolled out its long-awaited, block-by-block recommendations for...

In the wake of President Joe Biden's dismal debate performance, Newsmakers on Friday convened a group of veteran political talents that...

In an epic political fail, President Joe Biden during Thursday night’s globally watched debate confirmed virtually every adverse...

By Melinda Burns Island Breeze Farms, a two-acre cannabis greenhouse operation across from the Polo Condos in the Carpinteria Valley,...

Time is running out for President Joe Biden to change the dynamics of his rematch against Donald Trump, the nation’s most momentous...

By Lily Karofsky Around 1:15 a.m. Sunday, law enforcement officers entered UCSB's campus and cleared out the long-standing tent...

The late Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, a dovish Labor Party stalwart, famously said that, "One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the...

By Melinda Burns A proposed cannabis tax increase, designed to address the problem of chronic under-reporting by some outdoor growers, ...

By Melinda Burns As the county supervisors prepare to vote this week whether to propose a cannabis tax increase for the November ballot,...

In the Trump era, it's hard to think of a piece of advice more out-of-fashion than Robert Browning's celebrated epigram on behalf of...