Barney Melekian, a Santa Barbara County assistant executive officer for the last two years, will leave his post in early February to serve as the interim police chief for the city of Santa Barbara, ...

Barney was covering political races when we met, as I was volunteering on a number of them shortly after I moved to Santa Barbara in the early 1970s. I am lucky enough to say that our friendship ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Wednesday (Dec. 11) marked the 40th annual Barney Cannon Smile Run at Shriners Children’s Shreveport. The Shreveport police and fire departments came together to bring ...

Barney Brantingham, a great journalist who embodied Santa Barbara the way Mike Royko did Chicago, Jimmy Breslin New York, and Herb Caen San Francisco, died last week, his family announced Monday. He ...

Barney Brantingham, a master hand of journalism, a quintessential newspaper reporter and columnist in Santa Barbara, has died. He was 93. Credit: Courtesy photo Barney Brantingham, a master hand of ...