News

May 3, 2007

FBI Retains Hard Drive With Child Porn

By David Ferry

A Santa Barbara Superior Court judge blocked the Santa Barbara News-Press' parent company from reclaiming a hard drive containing at least 15,000 images of child pornography yesterday, citing an ongoing FBI investigation...

May 3, 2007

TPS To Decide on Fee Increase

By Valerie Tidwell

Following an indecisive meeting of the Ratepayer Board yesterday, Transportation & Parking Services remains unsure of how it will cover its expenses in the coming year.

May 3, 2007

Veto Affects Birth Control Prices

By Lindsey Miller

President George W. Bush's Tuesday night veto of the war spending bill not only halts Congressional members' attempts to regulate the U.S. occupation of Iraq, it also complicates efforts to decrease birth control prices ...

May 3, 2007

Council Approves New Budget, Backs 9/11 Forum

By Mackenzie Weinger

The Associated Students Legislative Council approved next year's A.S. budget and two resolutions last night, including one previously rejected by the council supporting an academic forum to discuss the "anomalies" of 9/1...

May 3, 2007

We Can’t Stop Here, This is Protest Country

By Staff

May 2, 2007

Locals Voice Support for Immigrants

By Chris Stein

"Fed up, can't take it anymore," shouted the 75-person crowd that paraded from the Pardall Tunnel to Storke Plaza yesterday. Confused cyclists swerved off the bike path to avoid the mass, which marched to commemorate May...

May 2, 2007

Locals Voice Support for Immigrants

By Ben Markham

Cries of "¡Si se puede! ¡Si se puede!" rang down State Street yesterday, as nearly 500 people -- hoisting both an American flag and an image of "Our Lady of Guadalupe" -- marched through Santa Barbara demanding...

May 2, 2007

UCSC-Hatched Plan Helps Newborn Falcons

By Natalie Rehkopf

Springtime is here and has brought with it the birth of a couple good-looking chicks - two baby peregrine falcons were discovered last Friday on Santa Barbara Island, the first of their kind to successfully hatch on the ...

May 2, 2007

Toxic Algae Kills SB Aquatic Life

By Koren Thal

The mystery surrounding the death of the sperm whale that washed up in Isla Vista last month may have been solved.

May 2, 2007

Early Fire Season Could Burn Area

By Evan Wagstaff

Santa Barbara County firefighters are already sweating over the 2007 fire season, which came early this year due to the dearth of seasonal rain in the past few months.

May 2, 2007

Stem Cell Pioneer Speaks on Future of Field, Research

By Marie V. Recalde

Along with Condoleezza Rice and Harry Potter, Dr. James Thomson was selected as one of People Magazine's most intriguing people of 2001, and last night UCSB welcomed him to lecture on stem cell research.

May 2, 2007

Campus Model Arab League Earns Honors

By Nayely Castrellon Reporter

While their efforts may not have led to peace in the Middle East, UCSB students were recently recognized for playing out just such a scenario at the West Coast Model Arab League conference.

May 2, 2007

News Briefs From the 805

By Staff

Car Plunges 200 Feet off Cliff; Passengers Live Two men are in the hospital today after their car careened off of Highway 101 near Summerland early yesterday morning and plunged 200 feet down a cliff.

May 1, 2007

Council Approves Development Plan

By Geoff Skelton

After seven years of planning, the Goleta City Council has finally given the go-ahead to begin construction on the Cabrillo Business Park Project, a development totaling 956,000 square feet.

May 1, 2007

Capps Proposes Law Authorizing Animal Hunting

By Kristin Ferrell

Last week marked a new chapter in the long battle over the future of Santa Rosa Island, as Congresswoman Lois Capps introduced a bill that would once again put the island's non-native elk and deer populations on the path...

May 1, 2007