Santa Barbara city building

Reimagine: Santa Barbara

We’ve partnered with KEYT News and Shared Mission Santa Barbara to create an extensive, multipart series examining the history and evolution of downtown Santa Barbara and explaining many of the contemporary issues, both good and bad.


A flooded street with buses and cars trying to drive through the water

El Niño

El Niño weather events are caused when warmer ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean are pushed by surface winds, moving the water eastward.


A firetruck with hills on fire in the background at night

Emergency Preparedness

Noozhawk’s Prescription for Abuse series is a special project exploring the misuse and abuse of prescription medications in Santa Barbara County.

Our series is a result of an exciting and unique partnership with USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, which awarded Noozhawk a California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship to undertake this important work.


A bottle of OxyContin besides many tablets

Prescription for Abuse

We’ve partnered with KEYT News and Shared Mission Santa Barbara to create an extensive, multipart series examining the history and evolution of downtown Santa Barbara and explaining many of the contemporary issues, both good and bad.


Papers, notebooks, a recorder, a keyboard, a coffee cup

Santa Barbara Challenge

The Santa Barbara Challenge is a joint partnership with the Davenport Institute for Public Engagement and Civic Leadership at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy in Malibu. It’s a unique venture for the institute, for Noozhawk, and for New Media in general.

Noozhawk’s reporters outlined Santa Barbara’s financial circumstances and budget process to provide context for the Santa Barbara Challenge. Afterward, with UserVoice.com, another Davenport Institute affiliate, we’ll launched an interactive and easy-to-use online survey through which Noozhawk readers can recommend ways the city can fix its budget or spend our money more wisely.