The panel chews over, hashes out and kicks around Santa Barbara’s most timely political and policy issues in a pugnacious, rambunctious...

Fifty years after the Jan. 28, 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel, the region is on the verge of another epochal event -the...

Newsmakers TV returns online and to TVSB’s airwaves this week with an all-star panel and a lineup of local stories with national...

With Santa Barbara’s political world awaiting her decision, Assembly member Monique Limon says she will decide “within 60 days” whether...

In the early 1990s, Governor Pete Wilson had barely taken office before he confronted a rush of disasters, both natural and...

The Perils of Online Publishing, Chapter 532: The good news is that the Melinda Burns-Hap Freund documentary marking the one-year...

Melinda Burns, whose exceptional journalism has set the bar for enterprise reporting about the Montecito debris flow, now has compiled a...

As he left office this week, after serving a combined 16 years as governor of California, Jerry Brown’s summation of what makes for great...

The biggest story of the year in state politics was simply this: Voters voted. Turnout soared to its highest level in history for a...

Kate Ford and Gregg Hart top Newsmakers’ pre-holiday list of Best and Worst political performances this week - one for keeping faith with...

Kathryn Barnes, Laura Capps and Josh Molina join the panel for 2018’s final episode of Newsmakers TV, confabulating on the big stories of...

Attorneys for a non-profit group organized by local Republican leader Greg Gandrud have filed a federal court suit against SB’s Unified...

The terms of two newly elected Santa Barbara school board members, to be sworn in on Tuesday night, will be shaped by the lame duck...

“Making History Making Blintzes,” the long-awaited, two-voice memoir written by community heroes Dick and Mickey Flacks, provides an...

Daraka Larimore-Hall, Santa Barbara’s irascible, highest-profile Democratic activist, sparked a nationally watched political drama last...

Days before his departure from city council, Gregg Hart is working to push through a policy to require Santa Barbara to employ union...

Amid the usual raft of sniping and cheap shots aimed at each other, the Newsmakers TV panel finds consensus in our latest episode about...

In the annals of South Coast disasters, San Ysidro Creek stands out for the awesome power of its terrifying debris flows. Swollen by...

At first glance, "Election Night in America Continued" sounds like an SNL spoof of cable news. In fact, it’s the actual name of a program...

The wet winter of 2017 is a distant memory as Santa Barbara County, like a thirsty desert survivor, staggers into its eighth year of...