Santa Barbara's water and wastewater rates are rising. The City Council voted 6-0 on Tuesday to support increases of up to 40% over the next four years.
Lillian Pierson Lovelace Lillian Pierson Lovelace, 96, wife, mother and gracious philanthropist, died at her home in Montecito on Tuesday, Jan. 16, her
The nonprofit develops character by guiding youth from all backgrounds, to engage in service projects, grow skills and knowledge through merit badge programs, recreate outdoors while following the principles of Leave No Trace, and so much more
In 1947, Lillian Child, the owner of the Vegamar estate overlooking Santa Barbara’s East Beach above the now-Andrée Clark Bird Refuge, deeded her 17-acre
William M. Macfadyen, founder, publisher and partner Bill Macfadyen Bill Macfadyen is the founder and publisher of Noozhawk.com, Santa Barbara’s freshest news and information source — and its only 24/7 professional news site. Commanding a staff of seven full-time professional journalists, three full-time sales representatives and an army of community contributors, he’s on a quest to figure out how to make online local news viable and sustainable. He was the co-founder and editor and publisher of the South Coast Beacon, a weekly community newspaper that made its debut in 2002, won the California Newspaper Publishers Association General Excellence Award the following year and went bust in 2005. Not having the sense to get a real job, he turned his attention to the Internet, where the overhead is lower and the optimism knows no boundaries. Bill moonlights as inaugural board co-chairman of the new Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce and a board me