Joseph Velasco

KCRW spoke with Dolores Huerta who was recently awarded the Social Transformation Medal by the Fielding Graduate University in Santa Barbara.

Roughly 95% of commercially caught lobster in California is shipped to China, where customers are willing to pay premium prices.

With Thanksgiving approaching, you may be both excited and nervous about gathering with family.

Global warming is changing California in profound ways, says New York Times Magazine’s climate columnist David Wallace Wells

Japanese artist Tatsuo Miyajima’s digital installations are on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. “I'm very interested in this life and death dynamic.

Darrell McNeill and his wife created a month-long pop-up cultural space at 1219 State St. and named it the Black History Month Culture House.

In the past five years, rents in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties have increased by 27%, while median wages have only grown by 8%, according to a new housing report released by the…

Many retirement homes are on lockdown in an attempt to protect those most vulnerable to COVID-19.

Wintertime is when some of the most exciting and unusual citrus varieties hit the Santa Barbara Farmers Market.