While vehicle crashes, weather, and shootings and stabbings dominated Noozhawk’s top read stories of the year, reporters were also busy tracking court cases, immigration issues, housing, and local controversies.
Here are Noozhawk’s picks for stories from 2025 that we thought were important to look back on, in no particular order.
Federal Agents Raid Carpinteria Cannabis Farm
On July 10, federal agents raided Glass House Farms in Carpinteria and detained 10 people. The raid followed months of concerns about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity in the community, sparking a large protest of people outside the raid.
The crowd gathered on Casitas Pass Road and Foothill Road near Glass House Farms, which operates cannabis greenhouses in the area…