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Sixty-one years ago Dwight was an astronaut candidate. Sunday, along with five others, he made the trip on a rocket owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — making him the oldest person to go to space.

NPR's Scott Simon remembers English singer and actor Marianne Faithfull, who died this week at the age of 78.

Music Academy of the West plans to build performance and rehearsal facilities and space for education programs at the $25 million complex at State and Canon Perdido Streets.

A new report says ranch is the salad dressing of choice in cafeterias and restaurants in the U.S. Its sales and shipments are double that of the No. 2 dressing: blue cheese.

China has 199 journalists in prison and it could be in part because of the country's slowing economy. A number of journalists who were jailed in the last year were business reporters.

The two-day Earth Day Festival will be held in Santa Barbara this weekend.

Israel's attack on Iran sparked the biggest jump in crude oil prices since Russia's invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago. Stocks fell sharply.

The former president is in Egypt to observe its first free presidential election, which begins on Wednesday.

Proceeds from the May 8 event will support the Solvang Festival Theater, The Elverhoj Museum, and the Arts Outreach organization.

State leaders say they will move to rename a day which honored the late farmworkers' rights advocate.