The youngest of a 15-generation family farm in Carpinteria leaves the family history of growing fruit and flowers to embrace the “green rush” of cannabis cultivation. After six deaths this year at the Oceano Dunes Vehicular Recreation Area - and some unhappy neighboring residents - the Coastal Commission is taking a hard look at California’s last public beach open that allows vehicles. And saxophonist Ted Nash from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra plays his musical interpretations of some famous paintings at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
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
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
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Left, Right & Center
Here Be Monsters
Bookworm
Design and Architecture
All the Presidents’ Lawyers