By Zac Ezzone
Echoing many of the talking points of the local anti-cannabis crowd, the Santa Barbara County grand jury recently released a scathing report in which it criticized county offi...
By Malea Martin
The Santa Maria/Santa Barbara County Continuum of Care and 20 local stakeholders launched a 100-Day Challenge to reduce youth homelessness in Santa Barbara County at the end o...
By Zac Ezzone
Over the next two years, the county of Santa Barbara will develop a plan identifying programs and policies the jurisdiction can pursue to meet its greenhouse gas reduction goa...
By Malea Martin
With about 20 percent of Santa Maria’s COVID-19 cases being among farmworkers, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) and Mixteco Indigena Commu...
By Zac Ezzone
In June, the city of Buellton became the latest jurisdiction to opt into joining Monterey Bay Community Power, a community choice aggregation agency that has expanded along th...
By ZAC EZZONE
Amid a surge of COVID-19 cases, Gov. Gavin Newsom recently required many businesses in Santa Barbara County to fully or partially close, a few weeks after many reopened from t...
• U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) released a statement acknowledging a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that the U.S. House of Representatives passed on July ...
By MALEA MARTIN
In his three decades of Central Coast medical experience, Dr. Dale Ekstrum noticed a shift in the patient-doctor relationship at traditional medical practices.
“Patie...
By ZAC EZZONE
Labor shortages and government regulations tied to groundwater usage continue to hinder local farmers, but technological advancements could ease some of these concerns, accord...
By MARITZA OROPEZA
In typical Latino culture, daughters are taught how to clean and cook to keep their men happy. Not me, I was raised by a single mom who worked two jobs and cleaned houses on t...
By Colleen Campbell Murr, Santa Maria
Regarding the catastrophe of this pandemic—the anger, insecurity, and fear of the unknown is bringing out the baser behavior in man. The difficulties of no income genera...
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By THE CANARY
Hey, you guys! It turns out that a bunch of retirees who have an extra 20 hours a week on their hands to do research and write reports don’t actually like marijuana.&nbs...
The Santa Barbara County Arts Commission announced it will award up to 20 stipends of $500 each to local artists who have created work in response to circumstances of the COVI...
The Dana Adobe and Cultural Center will open its upcoming paintings exhibition, All About Trees, on July 15.
This group show will showcase about 20 to 25 different painting...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
In an alternate reality devoid of COVID-19, June 20 would have marked the eighth annual Solstice Sundowner Benefit Party—traditionally hosted by the Elverhoj Museum of H...
By CALEB WISEBLOOD
For Max Hanberg, owner of Solvang Shoe Store, the cancellation of this year’s Solvang Danish Days Festival (originally scheduled to take place Sept. 18 through 20) is di...
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Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald created this origin story about gritty LA private detective Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys). Set in late 1931 and ’32 during the Great Depressi...
By BETH GIUFFRE
Katerina Axelsson was tinkering in a wine lab when she unlocked the flavor matrix for wine.
She’s always been fascinated by human biology—particularly biote...
The application period to join Pacific Conservatory Theatre’s (PCPA) two-year Technical Theatre Training Program runs through Tuesday, Sept. 15. Students in the program&...
Performance Athletics Gymnastics in SLO is implementing CDC and SLO Public Health Department protocols during its Summer Gymnastics Camp, which began Monday, July 6, and will ...
Marie Ramey Fine Art in Atascadero will host Exploring Abstract Art, a drawing and painting workshop, on Saturday, July 11, from 1 to 4 p.m. Local artist Vicky Hoffman will in...
Sunday, July 5, marked the return of Shower the People, a nonprofit dedicated to providing complimentary warm showers to homeless or critically low-income individuals, at the ...
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