1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy....

4+ day, 4+ min ago   (770+ words) Every lawyer who passed the bar (and some who didn’t) have an opinion on the Lindsay Clancy trial. I have an opinion, too, and it’s about as expert as the others, which is to say simply part of the social…...

4+ day, 34+ min ago   (345+ words) A new analysis in the Wall Street Journal offers striking evidence that, for all his problems, President Donald Trump has delivered economic benefits to the voters whose support was the foundation of his victory in 2024. The Wall Street Journal's headline…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (527+ words) In an amusing Sufi story, a man spotted his neighbor spreading powder around the house. When asked what he was doing, the neighbor explained, "I’m keeping the tigers away.” “But there aren’t any tigers within thousands of miles of here,…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (1576+ words) When voters across northern Santa Barbara County go to the polls Nov. 3, they’ll find a ballot full of local government, school and special-district races — and in several of the marquee contests, candidates who have already run against each other before,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (974+ words) On Aug. 6, 1945, President Harry S. Truman released a written statement announcing to the American people that the U.S. had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The announcement amounted to the beginning of the atomic age (nuclear era). Excerpts from Truman’s statement were…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (179+ words) The County of Santa Barbara has been recognized for their efforts to expand housing opportunities, streamline development and support affordable housing, with a prohousing designation from the State of California. The county earned the designation for expanding what types of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (538+ words) The state Capitol’s most enduring conflict pits corporate California against four powerful interest groups over new regulations, taxes, minimum wages or other costly mandates. The specific issues may vary from year to year, although some continue for decades, but the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (146+ words) Canada to announce retaliatory tariffs as Trump tells its leaders to ‘fall in line’ Trump's trade war with Canada could rattle economies in states with key Senate races Nothing changes yet with the Supreme Court's order on elections. But it…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (352+ words) Today is Tuesday, Aug. 25, the 237th day of 2026. There are 128 days left in the year. On Aug. 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Park Service Organic Act, establishing the National Park Service as an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior…...