Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and the Environmental Defense Center have filed a federal lawsuit against the owner of Mosler Rock-Ojai Quarry, alleging he consistently failed to prevent pollutants, like sediment, from entering the Lower North Fork of Matilija Creek nearby, resulting in a damaged ecosystem for the endangered southern steelhead trout.
John Jostes, former Santa Barbara City planning commissioner, won the prestigious lifetime Sharon M. Pickett Award for his work mediating protracted and seemingly intractable land use conflicts.
A private school for gifted and talented students opened its doors 9/3.
Thousands of men and women dressed in everything pink trekked nearly 40 miles and raised more than $4.4 million during this year’s Avon Walk for Breast Cancer.
Santa Barbara County’s birthrate among females ages 15-19 is decreasing in line with the country’s, according to data provided by the county’s Public Health Department and a study conducted by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
A proposal to install three designated smoking areas in downtown Carpinteria — as part of the city’s outdoor smoking ban — was not killed outright, but indefinitely put on ice by the City Council on 9/10.
Hours before dawn on 9/7, Chumash paddlers in tomols set out from the Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard and successfully completed the annual 21-mile crossing of the Santa Barbara Channel.
Gov. Brown on 9/9 signed a bill that closes a loophole in rape-by-impersonation law.
Westmont College made it into the U.S. News & World Report‘s top 100 liberal arts schools for the fifth consecutive year, checking in at number 94.
Review of Damilano Barolo Cannubi 2008.
