Santa Barbara Fire Chief Pat McElroy announced his retirement on Monday, Dec. 4, a few hours before the deadly and voracious Thomas Fire...

Santa Barbara is poised for a political – and possibly a legal – scuffle over the ways and means of filling the District 3 city council...

The six major candidates to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown made political pitches to several thousand elected school board members in San Diego...

Now playing: The All-Star Lineup is back with a new episode of Newsmakers TV as Kelsey Brugger, Laura Capps, Josh Molina and Nick Welsh...

The Oxford dictionary defines a “newsmaker” as a “newsworthy person or event.” At "Newsmakers," however, especially on our TV show, that...

For those still emerging from holiday-related Tryptophan Stupor Syndrome, here is the latest Newsmakers Index of all you need to know...

Editor's note: Amid much iconic, on-scene journalism covering the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its murderous aftermath...

The record will show that it is a 19th century magazine editor named Sarah Josepha Hale who deserves the preponderance of credit for...

Josefina Valdez and her late husband emigrated to the Santa Ynez Valley from Mexico in the 1980s. For more than two decades, they worked...

Gadzooks - There are fewer than 200 shopping days left before the June 5, 2018 primary, and Newsmakers has a vast political landscape to...

It’s a strange but true feature of the political beat that reporters tend to get on hot streaks, just like ballplayers, and right now...

ICYMI: Over at independent.com, Kelsey Brugger has posted a stunning, and sickening, story recounting how IV landlord James Gelb unloosed...

The post election post mortem show is now ready on our youtube channel and below. Jerry and the gang get into the weeds on the mayoral...

Sarah Gorman, City Clerk Services Manager, has just released new numbers in the vote count (Friday, Nov. 10) and, although the numbers...

No knock on Mayor-elect Cathy, and mega-kudos to her for the win, but let’s be blunt: Murillo is now the one and only Santa Barbara...

Mega-kudos to the winners and mondo condolences to the losers in Tuesday's election which. at this rate, the city has at least a 50-50-...

A survey of strategists working on the Santa Barbara’s mayor’s race reveals near-unanimity of judgment about what it will take to win in...

On the evening of Oct. 4, one of the 200 liberal environmentalists who packed the Santa Barbara Women’s Club to see the candidates for...

Since Labor Day, the five candidates for mayor have recited their sound bites and stock lines about the reasons they’re running a...

Laura, Dale, Kelsey, Josh and Jerry chop it up over sneak attack ads, out of town consultants, dark money, the horse race, endorsements,...