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Fentanyl Most Common Drug Found in U.S. Overdoses

While Fentanyl use in the U.S. continues to climb, hitting new milestones, some are having a hard time trying to play the active bystander. KCSB's Edward Colmenares reports.

Santa Barbara International Film Festival: The Bird Catcher

"The Bird Catcher" is a film based on real event during the Nazi occupation of Norway in WW2. The Norwegian/UK film follows the plight of a Jewish girl hiding out in the farm of a Nazi sympathizer and premiered at the Lobero Theater…

news January 31, 2019

2017 Data shows Racial Disparity in Wages still Persists

According to studies using wage data from both 2016 and 2017, Latina workers have to work an extra ten months to make the same that their white male counterparts do in a year. KCSB's Rodrigo Calderon has more.

news central coast January 24, 2019

New Wells Proposed for Cat Canyon

Exxon and Shell have joined forces in a proposal to drill more wells and increase oil production in Santa Barbara County. One week ago tonight the County's Planning department held a public hearing in Santa Maria for citizen comment on the draft of…

news central coast January 23, 2019

The Lineup for SBIFF 2019

KCSB's Harry Lawton previews the selection of movies that'll be playing at the annual, and much anticipated, Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

health & science news January 14, 2019

Asian American Mental Health: Moving Away from the Medical Model and Decolonizing Mental Health

KCSB's Dorothy Tang speaks with CAPS therapists Junichi Shimaoka and Marissa Floro about how the university is attempting to shift towards a preventative care model to serve a growing student demand, as well as Professor Mimi Khuc of the Asian American Literary Review…

current affairs news January 10, 2019

A Look at the Large Pentagon Budget

KCSB's Harry Lawton talks with journalist Dave Lindorff about inflated Armed Services budgets over the past 60 years, which he took a critical look at in an expose published recently by the Nation.

current affairs health & science news January 8, 2019

How Scientists are dealing with the CRISPR Scandal

On November 24th, 2018, Chinese scientist He Jian Kui sparked international outrage at the Second International Summit on Human Gene Editing when he announced that he produced HIV-resistant gene-edited twins. Visiting UCI professor of Law Judith Daar gives KCSB reporter Anita Carraher the…

about news January 8, 2019

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current affairs news December 10, 2018

Origins of the Central American Caravan

As the first group of Central American migrants arrive at the southern border, KCSB reporter Nassef Mohsen Ali talks to UCSB Political Science professor Kathleen Bruhn about the backstory to the caravan.

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