Clarifying Santa Maria Valley’s Wine Zone
Region renowned for pinot noir and chardonnay gets new American Viticultural Area borders.
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Wandering Mountain Drive’s Wacky Hermitage
Despite disaster, Theodore Roosevelt Gardner II’s sculpture garden lives whimsically on.
Mecca for Mediums Turns 120
Spiritualist Church of the Comforter on Garden Street to celebrate 12 decades of communicating with the dead.
The Return of Civil Discourse?
Santa Barbara Institute on World Affairs to offer series of speakers on global topics.
Mobile Home Rent Control Upheld
Ninth Circuit Court backs City of Goleta in major test of statewide protections for homeowners.
Whale-Watching by Air?
Oxnard Airport’s Channel Islands Helicopter tours give bird’s-eye view of national park and more.
Just the Hackers You Need
How UCSB’s Computer Security Group is fighting the biggest crime wave in human history.
Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown Reviewed
Folk opera takes over the Lobero stage for December’s Sings Like Hell entrée.
Baron Ranch Calling All Hikers
County celebrates opening of new Gaviota Coast trail; Camino Cielo connection may be coming.
Anacapa Island Reopens to Visitors
Nearly six months after one of the Channel Islands National Park’s most-visited day-trip spots was closed due to a faulty staircase, Anacapa Island opened to visitors last weekend after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers used a Skycrane helicopter to install a new set of stairs.
