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Developer Rick Caruso Makes Surprise Visit to Meeting About His Miramar...
Developer and real estate mogul Rick Caruso made a surprise appearance Tuesday night to stump for his Rosewood Miramar Beach project that has many neighbors up in arms. Caruso wants to build...
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Santa Barbara City Council Caps Cruise Ship Visits, Citing Environmental...
Santa Barbara is moving away from its courting of cruise ships. The City Council voted 6-1 on Tuesday to cap the number of cruise ships that visit annually to 20 and increase environmental protections...
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BizHawk: Shalhoob’s Restaurant Brings the Meat to Goleta’s Magnolia Shopping...
LJ Shalhoob has been cutting meat since he was 9 years old. His days started at 5 a.m., and every spring break and summer vacation he found himself in the kitchen. After he graduated from high school,...
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State of City Event Reveals Santa Barbara Faces $7 Million Budget Shortfall,...
The City of Santa Barbara is facing a $7 million budget shortfall and, behind the scenes, city leaders are thinking of putting a half-cent sales tax on the November ballot. The information came out...
View ArticleFormer UCSB Fraternity Member Given 6-Year Prison Term for 2017 Rape at Isla...
A former UCSB fraternity member who was convicted of raping a “blacked out” intoxicated woman in 2017 was sentenced on Friday to six years in state prison. A Santa Barbara Superior Court jury in...
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Santa Barbara Councilwoman Meagan Harmon Gives Birth to 3rd Child
Santa Barbara City Councilwoman Meagan Harmon gave birth to a boy, her third child, on Saturday. Andrew Francis Harmon was born at 1:43 p.m. at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. He weighed 7 pounds, 6...
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Iconic Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gas Station in Goleta Appears Headed Toward...
Robin Cederlof was a “daddy’s girl.” Everywhere her father went, she went. She remembers when she was 4 years old driving with her dad through the Barnsdall-Rio Grande Gas Station in Goleta to get...
View ArticlePossibility of Teachers Strike Grows as Santa Barbara Unified, Union Fail to...
The possibility of a teacher’s strike is looking more likely. The Santa Barbara Unified School District and the Santa Barbara Teachers Association were unable to reach an agreement on a new contract...
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Santa Barbara Pilot Program to Collect Back Taxes for Illegal Vacation...
The owners of illegal vacation rentals are paying up. The City of Santa Barbara has collected $596,000 in back taxes, interest, penalties and fees from vacation rental owners who previously were not...
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BizHawk: Oliver’s Vegan Restaurant on Coast Village Road Bids Farewell
Oliver’s is out. The vegan restaurant on Coast Village Road in Montecito is closing this Saturday. The company made the announcement on Instagram this week. “It is with gratitude, light hearts and...
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Man Dies After Falling 50 Feet off Bluff in Isla Vista
An unidentified man died after he fell about 50 feet from an Isla Vista bluff, authorities said on Saturday. The man allegedly climbed over a “barrier fence” behind 6625 Del Playa Drive, County Fire...
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Santa Barbara County Planners Suggest Carbon Scrubbers are Too Expensive for...
Will a lack of electrical infrastructure give cannabis growers an out from installing carbon scrubbers in the Carpinteria Valley? A 17-page Santa Barbara County staff report suggests that installing...
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Orchard Site Near Old Town Goleta Could See Major Development
A remnant of Goleta’s history still lives near Old Town. Thousands of lemon and avocado trees line more than 60 acres of land along Hollister Avenue on the east side of Highway 217, about a half-mile...
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Developers of Proposed 642-Unit La Cumbre Plaza Housing Project Criticized...
The developers behind the 642-unit housing project in La Cumbre Plaza want to build only 54 affordable units as part of the development on Santa Barbara’s upper State Street. And that’s a problem for...
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Facing Financial Peril, Santa Barbara Looks to Charge ‘Pay-by-Plate’ Downtown...
The City of Santa Barbara is looking to charge people to park downtown on a “pay-by-plate” basis, using a mobile payment app, website or self-serve kiosk, to save the downtown parking budget from...
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Santa Barbara Accepts $1.7 Million in State Funding to Expand Equity Programs
Santa Barbara City Councilman Eric Friedman opened his heart a bit from the dais Tuesday. He told a story of a fifth-grader, a classmate of one of his sons, who didn’t know how to swim. On a school...
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BizHawk: Nick the Greek Restaurant Finds ‘Perfect’ Downtown Spot on Santa...
Now, for some good news about State Street. Niko Heliotis and brothers Dimitri and Panayioti Trembois opened the Nick the Greek restaurant on Wednesday, at the former site of the Natural Cafe at 508...
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County Supervisors Set to Vote on Rezoning Ag Land to Build Thousands of...
Housing, and quality of life as we know it, will be in the hands of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors this week. The board, over the course of two hearings, will decide whether to rezone...
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Santa Barbara City Council Expected to Formally Approve Relocation of Farmers...
The time has come. The Santa Barbara Certified Farmers Market needs to move. The Santa Barbara City Council on Tuesday is set to formally approve the relocation of the market from the Cota Commuter...
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Proposal to Increase Downtown Parking Fees Sits Idle with Santa Barbara...
The proposal to dramatically increase downtown parking fees got stuck in neutral at Tuesday’s meeting of the Santa Barbara Finance Committee. Committee members Meagan Harmon supported the parking...
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