The oil platform off the Goleta coast, known affectionately as platform Holly, has been the source of inspiration of many who venture to Santa Barbara’s coastline. But since the bankruptcy of the platform’s owner and the 2015 Refugio oil spill, the platform, sitting on top of one of the most nat [...]

SBCC’s trustees recently proposed an anti-racism resolution that directs the new superintendent of SBCC to work on anti-racism plans. To learn more, KCSB’s Tianyi Huang spoke with Jonathan Abboud, a trustee on the Santa Barbara Community College Board of Trustees, representing Isla Vista, UCSB and [...]

Students of color at Santa Barbara City College claim they don't feel safe at school, and that SBCC officials are doing nothing to help. KCSB’s Tianyi Huang speaks with Nia Revis, a student leader of the Black Students Union at Santa Barbara City College to find out about her experiences… and wh [...]

California’s chief financial officer recently addressed a packed house of politically engaged women in Santa Barbara. KCSB’s Harry Lawton has the story.

While Santa Barbara County’s main jail has been characterized as an outdated facility with expensive maintenance fees, there is no renovation plan and no funding for the plan yet. However, the Northern Branch Jail Project located in Santa Maria, advertised as a back-up for the main jail, has had [...]

Santa Barbara City College announces plans for an evening college program in order to reach more students starting Fall 2019. KCSB reporter Jennifer Sor has more.

The group 'Concerned Carpinterians' attended a recent County Board of Supervisors Regulatory hearing to protest the lack of enforcement of cannabis regulations. KCSB's Robert Stark speaks with local journalist and blogger Ann Louise Bardach as well as gets the county's perspective, by speaking t [...]

The county is looking to expand debris disposal at beaches, KCSB's Hayden Harris has the story.

In the current stormy and cold weather, homeless people in Santa Barbara turn to shelters such as the Freedom Warming Centers--which have been looking to lower their threshold for entrance. Fatima Mobin has more.

Murderous Trance, directed by Arto Halonen and starring American Josh Lucas, is in part a psychological thriller based on real events set in Norway. The central figure hypnotizes young men to commit bank robberies to raise money for a secretive pro-Nazi movement though set after World War II. KCSB [...]