Sheriff Nabs Four for Goleta Gang Assault
The suspects reportedly attacked a skateboarder on Tecolote Avenue on Tuesday.
Year: 2009
Free Services for Those Experiencing Grief, Anticipating Death
Hospice of Santa Barbara continues to offer aid despite the ongoing healthcare debate.
Botanic Garden Plan Steps Closer to Reality
County Planning Commission conceptually approves project with changes; next hearing on September 16.
Capps Brings Healthcare Debate to Santa Barbara
Rep. Lois Capps spoke to a packed, sweltering church, but not everyone who wanted in got in.
Seraphine
Writer/director Martin Provost offers a nice contrast to Hollywood myths about following your dreams.
Of Prisons and Prosecutors
Pedro Nava, the Santa Barbara assemblymember running for state attorney general, voted on Monday against a bill to cut the state’s prison budget, which ultimately passed.
Let My Steelhead Flow
The National Marine Fisheries Service held the second of two public hearings late Tuesday afternoon on its recently released steelhead recovery plan for the 46 watersheds between the Santa Maria River and the Mexican border.
Vote No on Measure B
The Independent recommends denying the wrong solution for the wrong problem at the wrong time.
S.B. High Enrollment Up
Although student enrollments continued to drop slightly throughout the Santa Barbara School District-in both elementary and secondary levels-Santa Barbara High School witnessed a unexpected increase of 150 additional students over the year before.
Judge Rules on ‘High-Rise’ Meaning
Supporters of Measure B, the Santa Barbara ballot measure that would lower maximum allowable building heights from 60 feet to 40 in El Pueblo Viejo-won a key semantic argument in court Tuesday.
