By Cheri Rae The sight and sound of a child struggling to read aloud will break your heart: Shoulders slumped, head bowed, eyes...

Jun Starkey, recently hired onto the staff of the Independent, joins the Newsmakers TV gang, recapping her on-the-scene reporting on the...

The morning after, school board leaders Kate Ford and Laura Capps expressed calm certainty about pushing through a controversial,...

By Melinda Burns It has been nearly four years since the county Board of Supervisors rolled out the red carpet for the cannabis...

(Editor's Note: It's campaign yard sign season in Santa Barbara, as candidates for mayor and city council stipple the city's landscape...

By Melinda Burns Signaling a dramatic change from past policy, the county Board of Supervisors said this week it would consider requiring...

Forget the Gavin Newsom recall, the big buzz among political insiders in Santa Barbara this week was over a city election poll quietly...

Republican wannabe governor Larry Elder this week claimed he's "detected fraud" in California's recall election -- days before vote...

With three members of the Board of Supervisors comfortably ensconced in the pockets of the burgeoning local cannabis industry (shout out...

Kristen Sneddon staunchly defended her record against an onslaught of aggressive criticism from Barrett Reed on Wednesday night, as the...

This just in. Mike Stoker, erstwhile Trump Administration official and Santa Barbara's favorite Republican provocateur, has arranged for...

Amid 63 Covid "active outbreaks" in the county this week -- multiple cases at a single site -- the Board of Supervisors, the Santa...

Amazing but true, Meagan Harmon has served on SB City Council for two-and-a-half years but - before Wednesday night -- never before had...

During last week's mayor's race forum, Cathy Murillo ended a blithe answer to a question about all the recent City Hall turmoil and...

For the first time in the 2021 race, the six candidates for mayor of Santa Barbara appeared in the same campaign forum on Friday, in what...

Alexis Tande, co-founder of "The Whip SB," joins the panel this week to talk about how the social media start-up is working to boost the...

(Update: This interview was conducted the day before the deadly August 26 suicide bombing attack outside Kabul airport, which killed more...

The buzz abides. Four years ago, Cathy Murillo won key endorsements from the Santa Barbara Democratic Women's club and the Women's...

For two decades, Starshine Roshell has delighted Santa Barbara readers with her finely crafted weekly column, loaded with laughs,...

Mayor Cathy Murillo and challengers James Joyce, Randy Rowse, Deborah Schwartz and Mark Whitehurst all have accepted an invitation for a...