Halloween is almost here, and you know what that means: that Christmas is also almost here — or at least close enough for the most ambitious retailers to start monkey-flinging porducts at us like so ...

Last month, my four-year-old visited with Santa Claus on Zoom, where she told him what she wanted for Christmas. “There’s this toy dog,” Ella said. “He comes with a leash, so you can pretend to take ...

A fascinating if dismal report of the state of Santa Barbara County aquifers went to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, prompting an odd “poop-fest” of a discussion of toilet-to-tap options, which ...