Tri-county reservoirs filling up due to rain
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Highway 154 reopening after being closed by flood damage
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Central Coast wildfires char campgrounds, close highways
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Our view: Fire season has begun; region better prepared
The brush fires that scorched more than 40,000 acres in the tri-county region after the July 4 holiday are a reminder that spring growth after winter rains fuels danger in the summer. Fire is an ever-present danger in the West, as fires raging in California, Canada and Colorado remind us. As the current round of Read More →
Dubroff: Stormy weather, surging stocks plug one county’s fiscal pothole
The weather and the election of Donald Trump don’t appear to have much in common. But the rainstorms that struck over President’s Day weekend and the Trump bump in the stock market have had a big impact on the fiscal fortunes of Santa Barbara County. Hopefully, the powers that be will take advantage of a Read More →
Our view: State needs to be smarter about water infrastructure
The dam was declared totally safe. The collapse was totally unexpected. This month’s emergency evacuation of 200,000 people below the troubled spillways at the Oroville Dam in Northern California recalled memories of a disaster right in our backyard. On March 2, 1928, as many as 600 people, many of them residents of Ventura County, died Read More →
Rain, snowpack may displace Santa Barbara water
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