Next Monday, a special public forum convenes amid ongoing attacks by Trump's masked paramilitary agents on local ...

Housing and reentry remain the central pressure points. In January 2025, supervisors approved a $1.2 million, 15-year loan from one-time Public Safety Realignment funds to create 18 new transitional ...

The Meet-up of Third Coast Percussion and Jlin artfully grooved up Campbell Hall; David Starkey peers into the navel of ...

After back-to-back overtime losses the UC Santa Barbara men’s basketball team thrived down the stretch against visiting UC ...

Here are three of the cutest young girl guinea-pigs you’ll ever come across. They are 3 sisters with the swirly Abyssinian ...

Courtesy Santa Barbara, Calif., February 27, 2026 – Colliers is pleased to announce the sale of the Franciscan Inn & Suites, a ...

Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies (BWBS) is proud to report the 2025 Vessel Speed Reduction (VSR) Season results from the efforts of participating ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.– Santa Barbara Unified School District is proud to announce that Dos Pueblos High School (DPHS) has been named a ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Westmont ecologist Laura Drake Schultheis shares her research about plant flammability and defensible spaces in the face of ...

"The President’s Cake" is a superb Iraqi film, portraying the country in painful transition, through children’s eyes.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service.

A new national ranking has named Santa Barbara Airport (SBA) the most punctual small airport in the United States for 2026. According to a new analysis by travel compensation company AirAdvisor, Santa ...