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The New Year brings uncertainty whether 92-year-old Dionisia Galarza and her family will get to spend another holiday in her ...

When the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Trustees holds its first meeting later this month, members will be ...

A Santa Maria Superior Court judge declined to stop a $1 million settlement for the mother of a man run over by a police ...

Joshua Schimel Ph.D. is a UC Santa Barbara distinguished professor and former chairman of the Environmental Studies Program.

There is growing skepticism of the value of expertise and science, according to a 2003 Pew Research Center study. While ...

Halley Froehlich Ph.D. is a UC Santa Barbara associate professor in the Environmental Studies Program and the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, and is vice chair of the ...

Pete Kwiatkowski learned about football’s ups and downs long ago at Santa Barbara High School. He got a glimpse of the sport’s mountaintop during his ...

There is growing skepticism of the value of expertise and science, according to a 2003 Pew Research Center study. While ...

UC Santa Barbara professor Lisa Sideris Ph.D. is vice chair of the Environmental Studies Program, where her research and teaching focus on environmental ethics, particularly at the intersection of ...

Step outside shortly after sunset on Monday, Jan. 13, and look low in the east-northeastern sky. There you’ll see the rising full moon, and just below it ...

A pedestrian struck by a vehicle in Santa Maria has died due to her injuries, Sgt. Shane Armstrong of the Santa Maria Police Department said Sunday.