Newsom Pushes $1.4 Billion Plan to Extend Diablo Canyon by Up to 10 Years
Without this extension, the nuclear power plant in Avila Beach is set to shut down by 2025.
Nick Welsh
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Cottage Hospital Sounds Alarm as Santa Barbara County Sees Spike in Fentanyl-Fueled Overdoses
Director of Psychiatry and Addiction Services Dr. Paul Erickson says overdose deaths could reach 160 by year’s end.
Legislative Threat Looming for Bike-Share Operations in Santa Barbara and Across California
Bicycle lobbyists with CalBike oppose state bill requiring insurance coverage for private companies like BCycle.
Poodle | How Diabetes Put Santa Barbara on the Map
A landmark Senate bill is close, but no cigar on insulin cost cap.
Tiny Houses Open Doors to Santa Barbara Homeless Guests
DignityMoves begins moving residents off streets and into a groundbreaking new project.
ShelterBox Sending Supplies to War-Torn, Drought-Ravaged Ethiopia
The Summerland-based global relief organization is sending relief kits for 13,000 people to their partners in the Horn of Africa country.
Poodle | A Three-Point Plan to Make State Street a Great Street Again
Santa Barbara City council to spend $800,000 to get a workable plan.
Santa Barbara Mayor Tests Negative for COVID after Testing Positive Last Week
Mayor Randy Rowse is listed as uncertain for Fiesta amid fears of a Paxlovid rebound.
Jeff Shaffer Got the 20-Year Itch — Again
S.B. ACT leader moves from Santa Barbara streets to the Westmont campus.
New Chief of Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Announced
After 10 years as CEO of the affordable health-care system, Dr. Charles Fenzi passes the torch to Dr. Mahdi Ashrafian.
