Isla Vista News

Earlier this quarter, the Daily Nexus editorial staff began deliberating on a final "project" for the last On the Menu in celebration of another unforgettable year gone-by. In order to leave no culinary milestone in Isla Vista untouched, we decided to trade in our rigorous summertime beach body workout regimen for the chance to indulge in our ... (more)

Democrat Das Williams and Republican Rob Walter are competing for the position of assemblymember representing California's 37th district, the recently redrawn region encompassing the southernmost half of Santa Barbara County and areas of Ventura County reaching to Oxnard.

Maintaining her pro-student rights stance in the face of political pressure, Farr was also the only member of the County Board of Supervisors to oppose the controversial Social Host Ordinance.

A former college student ruled insane after he was convicted of second-degree murder for running over four people with his car wants to be released from a mental hospital.

Do you believe everything you read or hear? With the elections coming up, it is important that we utilize our powers of independent thinking and critical reasoning.

David Attias, now 30, has been held at Patton State Hospital since a jury deemed him insane in July 2002 after he killed four people with his car in 2001.

Daily Nexus co-sports editor Ryan Porush and managing editor Jacqueline Vietor sat down with Brent Pella, co-sports editor and the genius behind the recent UCSB YouTube music video sensation "Bike Path Love." Pella dished on bicycles, UCSB and, of course, his inspiration: love on the fabled bike paths of our campus.

Santa Barbara County sheriff's detectives are asking for the public's help in identifying a man who robbed a 22-year-old woman at knife point in Isla Vista.

Sheriff's detectives are releasing surveillance images of an armed robbery at an ATM in Isla Vista in the hope that the public may help solve the crime.

Then many of those same people proceeded to drink alcohol and smoke weed for the remainder of the day in preparation for a concert we Gauchos are proud to be a part of each year: Welcome back to Extravaganza 2012, where drugs and body heat could be felt in any and all directions.

Guns and Badges: It was 1969. Jimmy Webster was Santa Barbara County sheriff. Isla Vista was aflame with anti-war turmoil.

Our elections are overwhelmed with voter fraud, or so say Steve Pappas and Nancy Crawford-Hill, the publisher of the Santa Ynez Valley Journal .

Svedlow was one of the many awe-struck and disgusted Isla Vista pedestrians who stopped by the van parked in front of Woodstock's Pizza Friday night to watch a video documenting the mistreatment of farm animals.

The Gevirtz School of Education recently announced that the Santa Barbara Police Department has completed its training on safety issues concerning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual community members.

Goleta--Goleta Police conducted a sobriety and driver's license checkpoint on Friday, May 18th as part of Goleta's commitment to public safety.

Does anyone know the source of the frequent LOUD music and sometimes PA system sounds that we hear in our neighborhood near Cannongreen in Goleta? Almost always on the weekends, sometimes in the evening.

The continuing notion that there is voter fraud in Isla Vista lingers . It lingers with the right wing, who really knows not or why.

If you pass through the Arbor on your way to or from class, you may have seen the signs: "Please Don't Take My Vote, Mr.

Tony O'Rourke has signed a two-year contract to serve as Yakima city manager and plans to begin his tenure in early July.

If you take a walk down Del Playa on any given Friday or Saturday, you will without a doubt see numerous people being cited for alcohol related "crimes," surrounded by 4-5 police officers.