Isla Vista News

The University Center, Associated Students Program Board and Ice Skating Club are teaming up to host the first annual UCensation springtime concert and festival at the Lagoon Lawn.

Why do writers for newspaper travel sections rave about every view they see, every hotel they stay in, and every experience they have, whereas theater critics would be hooted off the stage for being so uncritical? Daniel Okrent, former New York Times public editor, asked this question but never got a chance to answer it.

"Writing is one of my passions, so it's great to get the experience." Originally from Lafayette, California, Olivero said he's looking forward to moving to the ocean side of Del Playa Drive next fall.

In college, particularly in Isla Vista, we are encouraged to despise labels. You may be lying blissfully in bed when your partner of x-months asks you timidly, "So, are we exclusive?" Don't panic.

"Mental health" - what does that even mean? Although most commonly used in conjunction with the word "issue," the reality is that everyone sits somewhere on the mental health continuum, just like the physical health continuum.

Running short on cash and facing an imminent shutdown, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinic officials issued an urgent plea Wednesday for the community's help in raising the money needed to cover operating costs while they work to revamp their business model by the end of the year.

The Goleta City Council made it clear Tuesday that it strongly opposes a Santa Barbara County Fire Department cost-cutting plan to reduce staffing at Station 11 in the coming fiscal year.

The Very Rev. Father Nicholas Speier of St. Athanasius Orthodox Church at the Sumida Garden Lane site of what will soon be the new home of his parish in Goleta.

UCSB student organization Street Health Outreach recently created an online petition to allow people to live in their cars in vacant Isla Vista parking lots without risk of being ticketed.

A group of enterprising UC Santa Barbara students are attempting to bridge the gap between student life and campus life with the creation of a magazine called Campus Point .

UCSB Police Department Officer Ryan Smith recently announced the he will run against incumbent Sheriff Bill Brown and Santa Barbara County Sheriff Department Sgt.

They saved the Santa Barbara parking lots, and we need to save The Isla Vista Neighborhood Medical Clinic from being sold and turned into another apartment house or McDonalds! The old church should also become the Isla Vista Community Center, something needed for decades.

The Associated Students Office of the President held Raise Your Voice! - a town hall meeting addressing diversity, representation and marginalization in the campus community - at Corwin Pavilion last night.

Last Thursday, local officials and members of the public gathered at Walter Capps Park to take part in a ribbon cutting ceremony for a newly erected wooden fence along the park's oceanside cliff.

The Isla Vista community gathered at greater Anisq' Oyo' Park on Saturday to enjoy a host of environmentally friendly activities and listen to live performances at UCSB's annual Chilla Vista festival.

Isla Vista is a place of surprises. Every time you turn around, there is someone doing something incredible .

Crane Country Day School honored two of its veteran science teachers, Pat Bixler and Phil von Phul, for their 30 years of service during the school's annual fundraising gala on May 4. Bixler teaches middle school math as well as kindergarten and eighth-grade science; Von Phul teaches sixth-grade geography and seventh-grade science at the Montecito ... (more)

Santa Barbara County officials, community service members, and park department personnel unveiled a new split-rail wood fence near the top of an Isla Vista bluff at Walter Capps Park Thursday evening, hoping it will help prevent more of the falls that have plagued the seaside college town for years.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department is asking the public to help identify a young man who allegedly conducted a strong-arm robbery in the Isla Vista area around 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Isla Vista's ninth annual Chilla Vista will feature hip hop-infused indie surf rock trio Radical Something along with local Isla Vista bands Junipero, Ultraviolet, Adventure Dogs and Eucalyptus, Eucalyptus this Saturday in the Greater Anisq' Oyo' Park.