Travis West Staff Writer

April 30, 2009

Strickland Submits Energy Bill

By Travis West Staff Writer

Newly elected local California State Sen. Tony Strickland's environmental credentials are being put to the test this month as his alternative energy legislation begins to wind its way through the corridors of the state c...

February 17, 2009

Local Opposition Zaps Lightning Music Fest

By Travis West Staff Writer

Lightning in a Bottle - the local three-day music and art festival once dubbed the ill-begotten child of Coachella and Burning Man - is still without a home after a permit seeking permission to host the festival outside ...

February 5, 2009

Students Gut DP Building

By Travis West Staff Writer

When residents of 6560 Del Playa Drive learned their building was going to be torn down, they took matters into their own hands and demolished it themselves, leaving little more than a pile of rebar and drywall in the gu...

January 29, 2009

Pricey Paving Project Presses On

By Travis West Staff Writer

Despite the current economic crunch, the $53 million construction project along Highway 101 between Milpas and Hot Springs Roads will continue as scheduled -- at least for now.

January 14, 2009

Meeting Fails To Address Greka

By Travis West Staff Writer

Yesterday's Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors meeting followed a familiar format.

May 21, 2008

Drug Bust Links Suspects to Murder

By Travis West Staff Writer

After over eight months of an investigation that led detectives deep into the world of illegal narcotics, the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Dept. has finally apprehended the men believed to be behind a September 2007 homicide.

April 25, 2008

Cellular Phones Mobilize Congo Gorilla Research

By Travis West Staff Writer

Consumers looking for an eco-friendly place to ditch their old cell phones can now drop them off at the Santa Barbara Zoo, where the zoo will use the sales to help save gorilla populations and possibly stem foreign blood...

April 23, 2008

Goleta Festival Celebrates Community

By Travis West Staff Writer

Isla Vista may have Halloween and Santa Barbara may have Fiesta, but this spring, Goleta will finally have a celebration of its own.

February 8, 2008

Rules to Uphold Ban on Sonar off Coast

By Travis West Staff Writer

Much to the delight of environmentalists and Santa Barbara whales alike, a local U.S. district court ruling has thwarted military sonar operations off the California coast.

January 31, 2008

SB County Agency To Sue EPA Over Lax Policy Enforcement

By Travis West Staff Writer

The Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District announced last Wednesday that it will sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for allegedly failing to regulate pollution from ships along the coast.

November 13, 2007

Company Allows Users to Buy Tickets on Facebook

By Travis West Staff Writer

Students searching for quicker ways to get past ticket lines and bouncers will now have a new alternative, as a result of one of Facebook's newest applications.

October 23, 2007

Art Program Supplies Creative Canvas for Kids

By Travis West Staff Writer

In an effort to bring out the inner Rembrandts of local youths, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Police Activities League have joined forces to create an after school outreach program designed to cultivate interes...