Gail Teton-Landis, the low-key but decidedly effective chair of the Democratic Party of Santa Barbara County, is stepping down from the...

By Lanny Ebenstein Dear Members of the Board: I have followed the recent proposals to change the grading system with interest, and I'm...

In the first show of 2021, the Newsmakers TV gang returns with inside analysis and behind-the-scenes commentary on the biggest local news...

Like 9/11 and Dec. 7, 1941, January 6 2021 already has entered the American lexicon as an iconic date packed with historic important and...

Santa Barbara city council member Kristen Sneddon is running for re-election, she confirmed in a Newsmakers interview this week, saying...

Democratic challengers were on the threshold of capturing two Republican-held Senate seats in Georgia on Tuesday night, an astonishing...

On Wednesday, Donald Trump's servile, deadender stooges in Congress will seek to overturn the November presidential election. Republican...

Reflecting on the extraordinary events of 2020 brings to mind that old Zen joke: The pessimist says: "It can't get worse." The optimist...

In decades to come, "2020" will emerge as a new major in history departments around the globe, as graduate students focus their studies...

Santa Barbara school district officials reported the first, distressing data about the impact of pandemic-induced distance learning this...

By Melinda Burns For the past three years, the “skunky” stench of marijuana swirling around Carpinteria, penetrating homes, schools,...

Jumpstarting the 2021 campaign, Planning Commissioner Deborah Schwartz said Wednesday that she is a candidate for mayor of Santa Barbara....

Not since Covid first struck in March have the economic, political and social impacts of the pandemic so dominated day-to-day life in...

After losing the 1896 presidential race, Democrat William Jennings Bryan began the American tradition of swiftly and graciously...

Santa Barbara County faces a new round of shutdowns, as Governor Gavin Newsom this week issued yet another set of Covid orders, amid a...

By Melinda Burns Mike Hoover, a Santa Barbara geologist, wants to remind us of the Medieval Drought, the epic dry period that held...

The first biography of Senator Kamala Harris will publish a week before she's sworn in as the nation's 49th Vice President next month,...

Because it's 2020, we can't claim to be surprised that Thanksgiving's prime time NFL match-up between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the...

Sixteen days after Joe Biden's victory became clear, Donald Trump's government finally faced reality on Monday -- even as its leader...

(Editor's note: It was 57 years ago this week when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, followed two days later by the murder of...