Santa Barbara Homeless Stats Given to Council
Some success stories, but funding sources cut in half.
Nick Welsh
Recent Stories
Saturday Farmers’ Market Held for Last Time at Longtime Location in Downtown Santa Barbara
After nearly 40 years, the market is moving to State and Carrillo streets starting this Saturday to make way for a new police station on Cota Street.
Poodle Rides Bikes Politely
Pedestrians must share Santa Barbara’s Grand Paseo.
Electricity or Gas? That Was the Question
Santa Barbara supervisors feud over unwritten ordinance.
S.B. Law Enforcement: 5150 or Bust
No official edict keeps law enforcement from holding mentally ill people.
Pauline Macareno Pleads Not Guilty to Murder Conspiracy and Murder of 96-Year-Old Montecito Widow Violet Alberts
The Alberts’s case is the highest-profile example detailed in the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s recent report on real estate fraud.
Sensei Challenges Former ‘Grasshopper’ in Council Race for Westside District
The 3rd District showdown between Gutierrez and Becerra is uncommonly nice.
Dog Fight: Five Pugs, a Poodle, and Donald Trump
Presidential fact checking with Bone-a-Fido, a pet store in Ohio.
Six Deaths in Custody: What Can Be Done?
The Santa Barbara County supervisors receive a grand jury report pointing to insufficient observation, communication failures, and ongoing staffing shortages as the main culprits behind the recent inmate deaths in the county jail.
New Psych Hospital for Santa Barbara County on Planning Boards
The county has until to December to submit its funding plans to the state for a bigger, brand-new Psychiatric Health Facility for those deemed a risk to themselves or others.
