There's good news and bad news looming for Santa Barbara's unwell, infirm and ailing, amid all the hoopla over the "strategic...

(Editor's note: Since Congress first proclaimed October "Dyslexia Awareness Month" in 2015, organizations throughout the country every...

In November 1989, Bill Carrick sat at a desk in the study of Dianne Feinstein's mansion in San Francisco's exclusive Presidio Terrace...

It's befitting that Dianne Feinstein cast her final vote in the U.S. Senate only a few hours before she died, and that it was entered on...

To this point, Santa Barbara historians would likely judge the most notable feature of the soon-to-end reign of Rebecca Bjork as City...

Since 2005, more than 2,000 local papers have closed down in the U.S. -- most recently, Santa Barbara's - as over half of newspaper...

Santa.Barbara City Council member Mike Jordan shattered all known land speed records for the Grumpy Old White Guy Politician class this...

Jane Hulse grew up in an 18th century New Hampshire house filled with Revolutionary Era furniture and trappings, listening to family...

By Melinda Burns A contempt of court ruling could be in the cards for Wendy McCaw, the Santa Barbara News-Press owner and co-publisher...

Labor Day seems an apt occasion to celebrate the life well lived of Marilyn McMahon, who died last month at 93, after suffering...

We haven’t actually asked him this, but Newsmakers feels safe speculating that there are days – a lot of days – when Santa Barbara Mayor...

In a prospective glimpse of Santa Barbara's next mayor's race, Eric Friedman on Friday jabbed at City Council confrere Kristen Sneddon's...

“Citizen McCaw,” the prescient and acclaimed 2008 documentary that chronicles the heartbreaking and heedless destruction of Santa...

Less than two years after accepting the job, Santa Barbara City Administrator Rebecca Bjork surprised her City Council bosses this week,...

On August 23, the first debate among the Republican wannabes for President will take place in Wisconsin. Amazing but true, next year’s...

Except for that whole Donald Trump indictment thing, August so far aligns with its journalistic reputation as a slow news month, yielding...

Supervisor Laura Capps said on Friday that "it's time to look at" making anti-odor, carbon scrubber technology mandatory, to address...

Mega-kudos to E.J. Borah -- the blue-collar beating heart of political efforts and energy that advance the interests of progressive women...

Not content with destroying local control over land use planning throughout the rest of California. San Francisco state Senator Scott...

Kristen Sneddon on Friday left the door fully open for a possible 2026 campaign for mayor, but declared that she's currently fully...