Don Hughes’s Nightmare House
Chapala One meltdown goes to trial.
Nick Welsh
Recent Stories
Dire Straits and High Hopes
School Board looks to save $8 million with unpaid furloughs.
I Sing the Canine Electric
Remembering David Attias and plumbing the difference between insanity and crazy.
Councilmember House in Car Accident
Santa Barbara City Councilmember Grant House was broadsided by an oncoming driver of a Mercedes Benz after House ran a red light at the intersection of Santa Barbara and Canon Perdido streets Monday afternoon.
Gang Injunctions to Be Filed Soon
City Attorney expects 25 to 30 to be targeted.
Olympic Cyclist in Bad Crash
Rory O’Reilly, a fixture of Santa Barbara’s bicycle racing scene and a participant in the 1984 Olympics, sustained serious injuries, crashing head on into a Forest Service truck while descending Gibraltar Road.
City Sued over Sewage?
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper served legal notice that it intends to sue the City of Santa Barbara for violating the Clean Water Act, citing 171 untreated or partially treated sewage discharges that have occurred in the past five years.
Kicking General Plan’s Can
It remains to be seen whether any changes to the City of Santa Barbara’s General Plan is capable of garnering the five votes needed for passage, but the City Council voted to keep trying for at least another three months and to hash out the well-publicized differences between so-called “smart growthers” and “slow growthers” in subcommittee.
Bikes and Brides
Elings Park directors have agreed not to hold wedding receptions or host organized bike races on Elings Park South as part of a legal settlement hammered out between the park and attorneys for the County of Santa Barbara.
Jane Russell Dies
Jane Russell, the iconic actress whose mammary majesty captured the obsessive imagination of reclusive mogul Howard Hughes and aroused the wrath of movie censors in the late 1940s and early 1950s, died this week in her Santa Maria home.
