Caroline Feraday

1 week ago | kclu.org | Caroline Feraday

Around 92% of the people served by Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics are low-income. The new Westside Clinic will expand services in an underserved part of the community, says the CEO of Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, Dr Mahdi Ashrafian. "This is the first clinic that we are actually building as a clinic. So it will be state-of-the-art, and it's going to offer services in that neighborhood that we have not offered before," said Ashrafian.

1 week ago | kclu.org | Caroline Feraday

International travel is in decline across the country, but how does that impact the sizable tourism industry in Santa Barbara? "Uncertain is the way that everyone is characterizing the current market conditions," says Kathy Janega-Dykes, President and CEO of Visit Santa Barbara. She says the tourism industry is important to the local economy.

1 week ago | kclu.org | Caroline Feraday

He’s called Tamur and he’s a five-year-old Amur Leopard. "Amur leopards are the most rare cat species in the world," explained Liz Cunningham, Zoological Manager at the Santa Barbara Zoo. The species is critically endangered in the wild and his arrival is part of the zoo's conservation efforts. "There's approximately less than 200 left in the wild. They typically will live in the Eastern Russian and Northern China region.

2 weeks ago | kclu.org | Caroline Feraday

It’s now a year-round risk, but with hot, dry weather, the risk of wildfires is something that the American Red Cross are always getting ready to respond to. "Unfortunately, that is a fact nowadays, the Red Cross does respond to more disasters than they ever have before. It almost does seem like it's all year round," said Eddie Zamora from the American Red Cross. He says that being ready to evacuate quickly and having a plan in place, is critical to prepare ahead of time.

2 weeks ago | kclu.org | Caroline Feraday

It was a chilling case, that lay unsolved for two decades. Dennis Wood was brutally murdered by a gunman in his own home in Moorpark in 2004, and investigators could not find a motive. It took a confession from the gunman, Alex Bracamonte, implicating his former boss, Antoine Nehme, in ordering the murder of Dennis Wood, for financial gain. Wood, who owned a prepaid phone card business, had given Nehme $28,700 in cash for an unknown business venture.