Rick Rust, who manages public affairs in Santa Barbara County for Aera Energy LLC, and retired Santa Barbara County Sheriff Jim Thomas were the recent guests of the Rotary Club of Lompoc.

A recent opinion column (Irv Beiman, Sept. 23) contained some serious misinformation about Aera Energy and our proposed oil production project in East Cat Canyon. We’d like to set the record straight.

Rick Rust is one of those classic oil guys — homegrown, plainspoken, and down-to-earth; you can’t help but like him. Nowadays, however, you can’t help but feel sorry for him, too. Rust is the public ...

Reporter Rick Leventhal, who received a major backlash for dressing up as actor Alec Baldwin from his upcoming movie "Rust" and posting on Instagram for Halloween celebration, noted that netizens ...