Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse castigated his City Council colleagues on Friday, for voting to keep nine blocks of State Street closed...

By Lanny Ebenstein The proposed county ordinance revisions to landlord-tenant relations, scheduled to be heard by the Board of...

On March 7, 2008, more than two thousand people packed a sold-out Arlington Theatre for the premiere of an historic documentary telling...

City Hall mandarins lowballed a critical public meeting on the future of pandemic-era restaurant parklets, but impassioned feelings on...

By Melinda Burns Against a backdrop of sinking cannabis tax revenues, the county Board of Supervisors took steps this month to get tough...

By Cheri Rae Education Correspondent “Subject: Failing Readers in our District. We are graduating kids who cannot read, or write a simple...

Forty years of environmental neglect and degradation resulted in a $63 million jury verdict against Chevron in a case brought by a Santa...

(Editor's note: At a time when state government has expropriated considerable power which local California communities have long held...

A critical thinking course at Dos Pueblos High became the latest local casualty of the nation’s culture war, as religious zealots this...

The Santa Barbara civic soap opera known as the State Street Advisory Committee descended into farce last Saturday, as the private...

By Margaret S. Crocco Literacy is in a state of crisis throughout the country but nowhere more so than in California, the state with the...

Mark Z. Barabak, star political columnist for the Los Angeles Times, returns to Newsmakers this week for a sharp and savvy survey of the...

By Ewa Cook UCSB Correspondent In a recent UCSB Reads authors talk, famed urban design author Charles Montgomery described how...

In a new episode of Newsmakers TV, political reporter Josh Molina takes aim at the bad optics emitted by the Board of Supervisors this...

By Melinda Burns Santa Barbara County planners granted a permit this spring to a cannabis greenhouse operation called Island Breeze Farms...

Ostensibly, this week’s showdown over a new housing project, proposed by über developer Ed St. George, and a neighbor’s appeal, conducted...

By Cheri Rae On Tuesday night, the Santa Barbara Unified school board voted to spend $1,753,000 for a new reading curriculum. It’s an...

On a new "Ask the Mayor" episode, Randy Rowse returned to Newsmakers TV on Friday, still fuming about the capitulation of his City...

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas has opened a new front in the war over abortion, with a ruling that poses risk for women's...

By Melinda Burns In a sign of the economic times, four growers who had obtained zoning permit approvals to plant 163 acres of outdoor...