Santa Barbara County ranked 18th out of all California counties in terms of overall health, according to a recent survey by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, trailing Ventura County, which ranked 17th, and San Luis Obispo, which ranked 13th.
Average bill may jump from $60 to $72 per month.
Angry Poodle Visits Casmalia Toxic Dump and Never Comes Back
Local hauler gets contracts worth $45 million.
Program designed to help city workers buy homes.
Councilmembers take public safety officials to task.
In response to the nuclear nightmare still unfolding in Japan, Congressmember Lois Capps called on the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) to withdraw its application to relicense the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power plant, located at Avila Bay, 90 miles up the coast, pending completion of three-dimensional seismic surveys of a new fault.
Westmont professor Paul J. Willis has been named the next poet laureate for the City of Santa Barbara, to serve as ceremonial bard over the next two years.
Heart disease ranks as the number one cause of premature death in Santa Barbara County, claiming the lives of 137 people in 2008 before they hit the age of 75, the cut-off line for premature mortality.
A Santa Barbara reporter is caught between mad bomber, right-wing propagandists, and federal prosecutors.
