The 805 Podcast
1) The history of diving around the Channel Islands
Santa Barbara is having a vigil tonight for the 34 people who died in the Conception diving boat fire. We look at the history of diving in the area. Also, a new collection of personal essays written b...Show More
2) A bucolic new rehab center for local child sex trafficking victims
Hope Refuge helps underage sex trafficking survivors transition to a new life of freedom. And a San Luis Obispo Assemblyman hopes to keep California’s last nuclear power plant running with his proposa...Show More
3) To save the whales, scientists bring new ears to the ocean
Scientists hope to reduce whale fatalities from ship collisions. A new sound technology will detect when the endangered animals are present and then alert cargo ships to slow down. More Mesa is on the...Show More
4) Author T.C. Boyle on “The Relive Box and Other Stories”
Santa Barbara author T.C. Boyle explores how technology affects our lives in his short story The Relive Box . In Testimonios: Early California Through the Eyes of Women the authors have translated and...Show More
5) Pacific Standard magazine suddenly shuts down
Pacific Standard employees took to social media to express their shock and anxieties over the magazine’s abrupt end. As fears of deportation grow among undocumented immigrants, complaints about fraudu...Show More
6) Amid fire season, power outages could threaten Diablo Canyon
The last standing nuclear power plant in California may face safety issues if there's an electrical power outage during wildfire season. A new Sea Center exhibit at Stearns Wharf looks at efforts to r...Show More
7) Life on Ventura County’s biggest little farm
A couple’s regenerative farming practices in Moorpark inspires the popular documentary “The Biggest Little Farm.” Santa Barbara’s Old Spanish Days’ tradition of selling decorated eggs on the sidewalk ...Show More
8) Blooms to Buds: A legacy flower farm turns to cannabis cultivation
The youngest of a 15-generation family farm in Carpinteria leaves the family history of growing fruit and flowers to embrace the “green rush” of cannabis cultivation. After six deaths this year at the...Show More
9) Kids avoid free summer meal programs fearing ICE raids
Kids’ free summer food programs are seeing low attendance following fears of increased ICE raids. California regulators hear public comment on ideas for decommissioning Platform Holly - the only oil d...Show More
10) A state grant expands juvenile probation programs
Santa Barbara County uses a state grant to boost programs aimed to keep minors out of prison. An iconic Santa Barbara architect weighs in on his ideas for better downtown housing design. Lotusland’s r...Show More