Draining Groundwater and Pocketbooks in the Cuyama Valley
A water rights lawsuit by giant carrot corporations, well into its third year, is driving up legal fees and gumming up the plans for sustainability,…
Continue ReadingMelinda Burns is a freelance reporter based in Santa Barbara, California.
A water rights lawsuit by giant carrot corporations, well into its third year, is driving up legal fees and gumming up the plans for sustainability,…
Continue ReadingThe cannabis operation next to the Polo Condos in the Carpinteria Valley must install carbon scrubbers for odor control, county planning commission…
Continue ReadingAs the county supervisors prepare to vote next week whether to propose a cannabis tax increase for the November ballot, they are facing a dilemma…
Continue ReadingLompoc Cannabis Lab will pay $1.3 million penalty for air pollution – the operator will install a state-of-the-art clean-air technology, setting a…
Continue ReadingCounty CEO: Cannabis tax revenues are falling short — again. Four pot shops in unincorporated areas were expected to open but didn’t, officials…
Continue ReadingAfter a state audit, Santa Barbara County will tweak cannabis licensing. Small changes such as “blind scoring” will enhance fairness, officials…
Continue ReadingA long-awaited county Board of Supervisors hearing on cannabis odor control ended in a split vote this week, as three board members voted for more…
Continue ReadingElection Post-Mortem in Carpinteria, the “Land of Weed:” How Roy beat Das 2-1 in their hometown, and what it could mean for…
Continue ReadingAn exploratory oil and gas well, the first such project in recent memory in Santa Barbara County, and the first believed ever to be approved for a…
Continue ReadingA Michigan-based company wants to drill an exploratory well two miles…
Continue ReadingThe owners of one of the largest cannabis operations in the Carpinteria Valley, leaders in the effort to prevent the smell of pot from drifting into…
Continue ReadingCentral Coast Agriculture, a major polluter, has 60 days to get clean-air permits, regulators…
Continue ReadingFarmers and ranchers take aim at Bolthouse and Grimmway, the carrot corporations that are suing all other landowners over water…
Continue ReadingMarilyn McMahon, a Santa Barbara News-Press features writer and a fixture at the now-defunct paper for 48 years, died at her home across from the…
Continue ReadingFeds cite News-Press owner’s “willful refusal to comply” with 2017 court…
Continue ReadingFaced with mandatory pumping cutbacks, the biggest water guzzlers in the Cuyama Valley are forcing farmers, ranchers, water agencies and the school…
Continue ReadingAgainst a backdrop of sinking cannabis tax revenues, the county Board of Supervisors took steps this month to get tough with growers who fail to…
Continue ReadingIt’s been a smelly five years with little relief at the Polo Condos, neighbors of Island Breeze…
Continue ReadingLocal ranchers, joined by Harvard students, oppose the university’s plans to build reservoirs at its large vineyard off Highway…
Continue ReadingConcerned Carpinterians, a cannabis watchdog group that has sought to rein in the greenhouse “grows” that have proliferated in the Carpinteria…
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