This week, we dip into the world of sci-fi as Christina McDermott brings us two graphic novels and a novella that will transport you through space and time. If the current time and place are feeling a ...

“Another epidemic in Santa Barbara County is not merely a possibility — it is an inevitability” is the opening line in a Grand Jury report asking if the Public Health Department was ready for the next ...

The second concert of the series will take place on Sunday, May 25, at 4 p.m. at the Lobero Theatre. The Santa Barbara Youth Symphony will perform a powerful program including works by Ravel, ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. GOLETA, CA, May 19, 2025 – It’s National Public Works Week (May 18 – 24) and what better time to join the City in showing your ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The Women's Fund of Santa Barbara made a big announcement to help almost a dozen nonprofits in the community. The organization awarded a record $1.25 million in grants to ...

SANTA CRUZ — Santa Cruz County Supervisor Justin Cummings’ tenure on the powerful California Coastal Commission will be short-lived after California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas selected a ...

They blend into the landscape and soundscape, rarely the objects of our attention. But an exhibition at the UC Santa Barbara Library draws our focus to these creatures by upending our usual experience ...

Police are looking for a Santa Barbara man who disappeared from the Big Bear Lake area just after midnight Friday. Tanner Prentiss, 22, was visiting Big Bear Lake over the weekend with some ...

Brian Johnson, CEO of the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors is being honored by the National Association of Realtors with the Realtor association Certified Executive (RCE) designation ...

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County. As lawmakers scramble to turbocharge post-fire recovery ...

With the CIF Southern Section Division 4 Championship Plaque at its fingertips the Santa Barbara High boys’ volleyball team had no answer for Sage Hill and its superstar outside hitter Jackson Cryst.