Lawsuit seeks to shut down Busy Bee’s Organics in wine country
A citizens’ coalition is suing the Board of Supervisors and the owner of Busy Bee’s Organics, a 22-acre cannabis project on Highway 246 that was…
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Whistleblower lawsuit blasts Santa Ynez River district
A hydrogeologist who was laid off last summer from a Santa Ynez water district has filed suit against her former employers, alleging that her boss…
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50 acre cannabis operation gets a green light in wine country
The largest cannabis operation to come before the county Board of Supervisors was approved for a zoning permit in a contentious 3-2 vote on…
Continue Reading County permit stalls for Herbal Angels cannabis farm near Lompoc
The county Planning Commission this week postponed a vote on a zoning permit for a large cannabis operation in Cebada Canyon, a bucolic community of…
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Signs of life on Montecito’s deadliest block
Two years after the Jan. 9 mudslides in Montecito, residents are picking up the pieces and trying to rebuild.…
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Making Montecito Safer – Part 2
What if the boulders and debris that obliterated whole neighborhoods in Montecito on Jan. 9, 2018 could have been captured in the…
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Making Montecito Safer: Part 1
A large debris basin will be constructed on San Ysidro Creek within two years, county officials…
Continue ReadingDespite winter rains, the Goleta Water District can’t lift its ban on new water meters
The five-year-old moratorium on new water hookups in the Goleta Valley will likely continue through 2020, even though the drought emergency is over,…
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