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39th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival

39th Annual Santa Barbara International Film Festival

Lucy Wang and Ada Green April 22, 2024

       Every year, Santa Barbara hosts one of the leading film festivals in the world, attracting filmmakers, celebrities, and 100,000 attendees. This February, SBIFF held its 39th annual event in...

A Climactic California Crisis: 2023-2024 Update

A Climactic California Crisis: 2023-2024 Update

Davis Ohanian, Sports Editor March 21, 2024

Facing a $68 billion dollar budget deficit, California, the world’s 5th largest economy, is struggling with the effects of inflation and high interest rates, constituting a budget crisis at the state...

Mock Trial

Mock Trial

Niccolo D'Agruma March 18, 2024

All rise. Court is now in session. Mock Trial is a competitive extracurricular activity, which started at Laguna in 2000. It is a rigorous, intensive, and time-consuming program, which requires months...

Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking

Lucia Camp, News Editor March 18, 2024

"Human trafficking is being forced into doing work for someone else, being forced into performing sexual acts, or people being treated as commodities, essentially, modern-day slavery,” said Amy Tovias,...

How does Handwriting Boost Brain Connections More than Typing?

How does Handwriting Boost Brain Connections More than Typing?

Jinling Wang, Feature Editor February 4, 2024

As the growing aches and pains shoot through our hands with our fingers tightly gripped around our pencils, new research shows growing evidence of the benefits of handwriting in comparison to typing. Studies...

Members of the Youth Council listening to Moms Demand Action representative.

Santa Barbara Safe Storage Gun Ordinance

Christiana Cino, Opinion Editor January 27, 2024

More than 4.6 million children live in a house with an unlocked, loaded gun that have lead to the 377 accidental shootings by children in 2023.  The April 2023 Youth Speak Out at Santa Barbara City...

Alaska Bound

Alaska Bound

Lucia Camp, News Editor November 26, 2023

After a 2 a.m. wake-up call, a grueling 2-hour bus ride, three flights, and a two-hour boat ride, the Stem Research Pathway (SRP) trip was officially underway. In August, seniors Andreas McClintock, Christiana...

Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. Lawsuit: Why it Matters

Federal Trade Commission, et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. Lawsuit: Why it Matters

Ada Green November 24, 2023

Think about the last time you received an Amazon package. You probably needed something small—that new book you wanted to read, a last-minute Halloween costume, a birthday present for a friend—and...

Floods Following Fires

Floods Following Fires

Cierra Nervo, Opinion Editor November 16, 2023

Large amounts of bizarre weather occurrences have escalated in recent years. Extreme heat in Europe, China, and North America has devastated communities over the last summer, with places in the U.S. reaching...

Lahaina’s Loss and Revival

Milla Hirsch and Daphne Shiebler November 16, 2023

"He could feel the hair on the back of his neck burning as he was speeding out of town to run from the fires,” upper school grandparent and Hawaii resident Joseph Pelletier said. “Waylon, one of my...

Family Festival

Family Festival

Niccolo D'Agruma November 16, 2023

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