Year in Review: Nick Welsh Chooses a Handful of Stories
Our executive editor picks some favorite stories from 2018.
Nick Welsh
Recent Stories
Lucidity Wins Family Friendly Award
The festival made it a point to create safe spaces for kids and teens.
Housing Authority Unveils Plan to Rescue Casa de la Raza
Proposes loan to pay debts and both continue La Casa’s community hub and build low-income housing.
A Christmas Story, Sort Of
Parents come to Santa Barbara for a conservatorship for their son, in solitary and refusing his meds.
Affordable Care Repeal a Long Way Off
Carbajal pledges to fight to uphold the bill.
Stinky Zinke Forced Out
Saying goodbye to bad rubbish, but he’s not the problem.
Intrigue Already Growing Over District 6 Vacancy
An appointment will fill Hart’s empty seat.
Trial Determining if Man Accused of Rape Spends Ten Years or Life in Prison
Kahlil Byers is accused of savagely beating and sodomizing a homeless woman.
City Outlines New Homeless Plan After Scrapping ‘Tiny Home’ Idea
Two million dollars in state funds will now go to Cottage, police, and a street outreach team.
Sometime S.B. Resident Ryan Zinke to Step Down
All roads to lead to Santa Barbara — even Trump’s.
