The 805

The history of diving around the Channel Islands

A bucolic new rehab center for local child sex trafficking victims

To save the whales, scientists bring new ears to the ocean

Author T.C. Boyle on “The Relive Box and Other Stories”

Pacific Standard magazine suddenly shuts down

Amid fire season, power outages could threaten Diablo Canyon

Life on Ventura County’s biggest little farm

Blooms to Buds: A legacy flower farm turns to cannabis cultivation

Kids avoid free summer meal programs fearing ICE raids

A state grant expands juvenile probation programs

County Supervisor responds to criticism over expanding cannabis farms

Pulitzer Prize winning author discusses surfing memoir ‘Barbarian Days’

Ventura to open its first 24-hour homeless shelter

The public responds to potential new fracking permits on California’s public lands

Memorial exhibition commemorates five-year anniversary of Isla Vista tragedy

Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, talks about his life lessons in new book

City of Santa Barbara considers crackdown on city park behavior

Two oil companies face court decisions for operations in the Santa Barbara Channel

Santa Barbara City Council votes to protect renters and slow evictions

Debris Flow Nets/Voluntary Vessel Speed Reduction Program

The monarch population declines at Ellwood Mesa

California doles out money to help the homeless

New investigation links Thomas Fire to SoCal Edison

Where to spot stellar wildflowers along the Central Coast

What really goes in Santa Barbara’s dump

The fight to make Old Town Goleta newer

SB City College President retires amid racial tensions

A small coastal town fights the growing stench — and footprint — of cannabis

After the Borderline shooting, a fight for gun control

50 years after a massive spill, Santa Barbara remains tied to oil

Free food for federal workers during shutdown

One year later, the threat of more mudslides still exists

As the year ends, so does the fight over a coastal power plant in Oxnard

Lessons learned a year after the Thomas Fire and debris flow

A call to prepare for the next natural disaster

One year later, Ojai reflects on the Thomas Fire in a new book

Who will get displaced by a new Santa Barbara police station?

Following three tragedies: two fires and a mass shooting in Ventura

A Santa Barbara doctor learns to treat his own pain

Proposition 6 fuels debate among Central Coast commuters

Implicit bias training discriminates against white people, anonymous parents say

Are state-mandated gender quotas legal?

An aging Ventura levee at risk of collapse

Valley Fever is spreading, and climate change may be to blame

How to fill Santa Barbara’s emptying main street

A clean sweep of riverside homeless encampments in Lompoc

Tea parties, skateboarders and wildfires: The story of Montecito’s Mar y Cel

Will logging the Los Padres help stop wildfires?

At the Santa Barbara Bowl, a community concert of world-class proportions.

Treating mental illness in our prisons and jails