Three Santa Barbara City employee associations have agreed to salary and wage concessions—combined with suspended vacation cash-outs and work furloughs—which combined will save City Hall $1.7 million in the next year.
Santa Barbara police detectives are investigating a sudden rash of home burglaries targeting big screen TVs. Police officials report that north side neighborhoods in particular have been hit.
How one uncommonly rude man has protected us from our protectors.
Santa Barbara residents will be paying on average $5 more a month for their combined water, sewage, and trash services, due to a unanimous vote of the City Council on Tuesday.
City Council approves retirement home’s expansion plans.
Would use cash to improve and expand Victoria Hall.
After lengthy and passionate debate, the Santa Barbara City Council voted narrowly to support changes to the state’s open government law — the Brown Act — making it permissible for a majority of councilmembers to meet and discuss legislative matters privately without notifying the public in advance.
PG&E’s efforts to re-license the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in Avila Beach for an additional 20 years was dealt what could be a two- to four-year delay by the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, a quasi-judicial board operated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to adjudicate appeals by members of the public.
How a cute, but dumb, bird is not about to devour the city’s waterfront.
Randy Rowse says he’s still on the fence.
