A 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…
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Election Post-Mortem in Carpinteria, the “Land of Weed:” How Roy beat Das 2-1 in their hometown, and what it could mean for…
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An 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…
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A Michigan-based company wants to drill an exploratory well two miles…
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The 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…
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Central Coast Agriculture, a major polluter, has 60 days to get clean-air permits, regulators…
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Farmers and ranchers take aim at Bolthouse and Grimmway, the carrot corporations that are suing all other landowners over water…
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Marilyn 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…
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Feds cite News-Press owner’s “willful refusal to comply” with 2017 court…
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Faced with mandatory pumping cutbacks, the biggest water guzzlers in the Cuyama Valley are forcing farmers, ranchers, water agencies and the school…
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Against a backdrop of sinking cannabis tax revenues, the county Board of Supervisors took steps this month to get tough with growers who fail to…
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It’s been a smelly five years with little relief at the Polo Condos, neighbors of Island Breeze…
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Local ranchers, joined by Harvard students, oppose the university’s plans to build reservoirs at its large vineyard off Highway…
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Concerned Carpinterians, a cannabis watchdog group that has sought to rein in the greenhouse “grows” that have proliferated in the Carpinteria…
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Carryover funds from previous years will take up the slack, officials…
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Cannabis critics had a chance this year to lend their noses to a controlled odor study at one of the many greenhouse “grows” that ring the…
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Expensive carbon filters can “scrub” the stink of greenhouse cannabis, but how many growers will install…
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Felony charges include alleged perjury, conspiracy to commit…
Continue Reading The acreage cap will soon be filled, but odor control lags far…
Continue Reading “Self-reporting” by growers has led to lost tax revenues, board says, but it will take time to come up with a fairer…
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