Last Leap and Testament of Scott Powers: ‘A Nice Man Who Just Needed Help’
Powers’s death is one of six fatalities in the Santa Barbara County Jail reviewed by the Grand Jury.
Author: Nick Welsh
Five Complaints Filed Against Santa Barbara City Cops — Four from Other Officers
Fire and Police Commission hears about police complaints, crime stats, and staffing successes.
Make Safe Parking Part of a State-Wide Answer to Homelessness
More people live in vehicles, but have nowhere to park at night.
Downtown Santa Barbara’s Commercial Cognoscenti Want More Than Pretty Pictures
State Street business and property owners, real estate brokers, and bankers share their thoughts and concerns on the near and distant future of the city’s main drag.
Elon Musk Wants to Shoot More Rockets over Santa Barbara
Space Force tells Coastal Commission it has no say.
Salud Carbajal Praises Biden for Putting ‘Country over Ego’
Congressmember endorses Kamala Harris as Dems’ new presidential candidate.
Plans to Reactivate Exxon’s Operations off Santa Barbara Coast Deemed ‘Inadequate’
The ghost of the 2015 oil pipeline spill at Refugio Beach continues to haunt the coast.
Supreme Court Rules You Don’t Have to Have a Home, but You Can’t Stay Here
How will the City of Santa Barbara and other local governments respond to the recent majority ruling conflating poverty with criminality?
Bribing People Not to Take Meth Works
Santa Barbara is one of 19 California’s 58 counties to opt into the federally funded pay-to-stay-away program for heavy meth users.
Poll Shows Deep Ambivalence About City of Santa Barbara’s Direction
A recent survey on the proposed sales-tax measure for November’s ballot shows more than half of respondents think city is headed down the “wrong track.”
