For the first time, the three candidates for City Council in the Eastside's District 1 sat down face-to-face-to-face on Wednesday night,...

On Tuesday night, more than a dozen citizen orators beleaguered the school board in Carpinteria about – what else? – marijuana. The...

Blessed by the political gods, Oscar Gutierrez won 1007 votes in capturing a 2018 special election on Santa Barbara’s Westside– that now...

Lizzie Rodriguez, sharp-tongued community activist and SB Fire and Police Commissioner, joins the cast this week for the first episode of...

Mega-kudos to Santa Barbara word-slinger Starshine Roshell, who will be honored by the venerable Association for Women in Communications...

In just a few months, SB city council member Meagan Harmon has moved from political unknown into the center of the most substantive and...

The first of four Newsmakers TV special editions on Santa Barbara’s 2019 City Council races is now up on You Tube Channel. Contenders...

Newsmakers TV returns from summer reruns this week with two election shows: a conversation with all five candidates in the wide-open...

Laura Capps formally announced her candidacy for the Board of Supervisors at the Mission Rose Garden on Tuesday, starting her challenge...

The suits down at Santa Barbara school district HQ were doing touchdown dances late Friday, in celebration of their latest legal victory...

Laura Capps, school board member and scion of Santa Barbara’s most prominent political family, plans a formal announcement of her...

Topic A. Our spies say that Concerned Carpinterians, one of the key, um, grassroots groups fighting the county’s transformation into...

The big news at City Hall this week was the delivery of an expensive consultant's report examining Santa Barbara's seemingly most...

Take it to the bank: She’s running. Laura Capps is telling friends and political associates that she has decided definitely to challenge...

The Newsmakers blog is headed off on a much-needed, if not particularly well-earned, sojourn to an appropriately bleak and remote...

(Today Newsmakers presents two sides of the controversy over marijuana cultivation in Santa Barbara County: A group of “Concerned...

Amid the Kamala Harris triumphalism now reverberating through the Beltway echo chamber, Calbuzz interrupts this program to bring...

In the latest installment of Santa Barbara’s most riveting civic soap opera, the plot thickens, twists and turns: As Laura fires an...

The plans for a new operations building at the Montecito Sanitary District – a project 15 years in the making – are suddenly in limbo, a...

From Bernie and Biden to Warren and Williamson, the race for the Democratic presidential nomination begins for real on Wednesday evening...