Santa Barbara, CA — [June 18th, 2025] — Unity Shoppe is excited to announce the launch of its Annual Back-to-School Drive, beginning June 23, 2025, and concluding on July 23rd, 2025, to support ...

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A veritable who’s who of the Santa Barbara poetry community will be reading at Chaucer’s Books on Tuesday night to celebrate ...

Yatchisin, will edit the anthology, which will be published in April 2026 (coinciding with Poetry Month) by Gunpowder Press, a local nonprofit literary press founded in 2013 by David Starkey and ...

After the community showed up for the chamber on Tuesday, the council voted unanimously to “find money” to keep the 122-year-old institution afloat.

A Buellton-area winemaker is asking the courts to allow his class-action lawsuit over the “strong stench” of pot to proceed ...

Seth Tedeschi and Zach Gesswein of Dos Pueblos and Peter Lehman of Cate were named All CIF-SS for their respective divisions. The Chargers reached the CIF-SS Division 4 Championship game with Tedeschi ...

Yo Ma, Ballet Preljocaj, Joyce DiDonato, and Jake Shimabukuro are among the big names coming to Santa Barbara.

Nero came to power not as a leader but as a spectacle. He fancied himself a genius, an artist, a savior of Rome. In truth, he was a petty showman with a crown. He mocked the Senate, stacked the courts ...

Two fires broke out in Gaviota along Highway 101 Tuesday afternoon, stopping train service and closing down all southbound ...

Santa Barbara Humane is excited to announce that its popular Basic Manners dog training classes are now being offered outdoors ...

What’s happening isn’t just a threat to California, it’s a threat to everyone in every state. If Donald Trump can bypass the ...