Nearly 80,000 Santa Barbara County residents will receive an emergency "test" notification alert from ReadySBC on Thursday at 10 a.m. The county says it's testing whether community members who ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara Clean Energy (SBCE) is excited to announce the launch of its Community Tree Program, a new pilot initiative in ...

With love guiding their pencils, second graders at Santa Barbara Catholic School created heartfelt portraits of their moms from memory and each drawing became a handmade Mother’s Day card filled ...

The best time to visit Santa Barbara is from March to May or from September to November. Temperatures are fairly mild year-round, with average highs hovering in the 60s and 70s, but traveling in ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CA — Step onto the sun-baked pavement of the Old Mission Santa Barbara this Memorial Day Weekend, and you might just find a child’s imagination, an artist’s legacy, treasured ...

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Ten inmates escaped from a New Orleans jail on Friday, including a convicted killer. Officials say there’s evidence they received help from someone inside the sheriff’s department. The ...

The activity, which commenced in 2023, has been codenamed Operation RoundPress by the Slovak cybersecurity company. It has been attributed with medium confidence to the Russian state-sponsored hacking ...