A former Santa Barbara teaching assistant pleaded guilty this week to one felony count of contacting a minor with intent to ...

After dropping the first set, The Dons trailed 24-20 in set two when a Saugus serving error cut the deficit to 24-21 and ...

SBCAG and the county have finished an environmental impact report for planned last-mile broadband installations.

Coming off a run to the second round of the CIF Southern Section Division 1 playoffs last season the Dos Pueblos High flag football team opened up its 2025 campaign with a 50-7 rout of Westlake on ...

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

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (Aug. 12, 2025) — U-Haul Co. of California is pleased to announce that Happy’s Collision Centersigned on as a U-Haul® neighborhood dealer to serve the Santa Barbara community.

It’s certainly true of UC Santa Barbara’s Gaucho Racing, a club that has grown to more than 60 undergraduates, who take it upon themselves to build the iconic single-seat, open cockpit racecar and ...

Cenfire, a spinout from Goleta-based MEMS foundry Atomica, says it has a solution: a tiny solid-state switch that all but ...

A new documentary about the legendary, enigmatic band Steppenwolf will have its West Coast premiere at a special benefit screening. The Lobero Theatre hosts the film : The Story of Steppenwolf on ...

The Solvang Senior Center is proud to announce that its new home—scheduled to open in mid-2026—will be named Elings ...

The seventh annual Santa Barbara County Farm Day expands farm locations allowing greater access to the public.

It’s the specter that haunts the lives of every happy, long-married couple: one of them suddenly dies. In the case of ...