KCBX Top Regional News
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Council members on Tuesday heard the proposed budget plan and responded to the 1.5 million dollar budget for homelessness and housing.
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In a 4-1 vote, Santa Maria city council this week approved a new pay and benefits package for local firefighters.
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As Cardinal Robert Prevost's name was announced, a sound of shock rose up. It was something few people had anticipated — the new pope is from the United States.
Recent Podcasts Episodes from KCBX
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Jordan Chesnut, Executive Director of SLO County Arts, on the 2025 Arts and Culture Economic Impact Report. We look at how the creative economy works toward equity and embracing community resilience.
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A conversation about how anxiety shows up in relationships and other interesting places.Be part of the conversation live Tuesdays from 2-3pm on KCBX.
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Congressman Salud Carbajal speaks with KCBX’s News Director Monica Lopez and KCBX reporter Gabriela Fernandez about the current administration’s policies and actions and what resonated with him at the Town Hall meeting that he co-hosted with Senator Adam Schiff at Cuesta College on April 22nd. For Playing with Food, KCBX's Fr. Ian Delinger travels to Guadalupe to ask, "What's in a sausage?" He talks to Ernesto Valle, the owner of Lobo Butcher, to find out just how pure, local, and fresh sausages can be. Then, Rosie Bultman, from UC Santa Barbara's student-run radio station KCSB, interviews Alex, an activist who went to the West Bank as part of their work with the International Solidarity Movement. They did not disclose their last name for security reasons. They were bearing witness to Israeli settler violence when they were arrested and then deported from Israel. They have been banned from returning for 99 years. They talk about their experience living there and why the everyday act of existence is an act of resistance.
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Executive Director at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum shares chilling recollections of the Oklahoma City bombing of the Murrah Federal Building