Goleta’s Miye Ota Dies at Age 106
The onetime Japanese-American internment camp internee ran a much-celebrated dance instruction studio and martial arts dojo in Old Town Goleta with her husband, Ken Ota.
Author: Nick Welsh
Santa Barbara County Needs to Verify for Oil Safety
Sable and California Fire Marshall must keep us informed.
Santa Barbara Homeless Stats Given to Council
Some success stories, but funding sources cut in half.
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.
