A rendering of El Presidio de Santa Bárbara, circa 1790s, as painted by retired Navy aerial photographer Russell Antonio Ruiz, a descendant of Comandante ...

Transit providers across Santa Barbara and Ventura counties are working together to offer free rides for Santa Barbara’s Earth Day Festival weekend, April 2-27. The Santa Barbara County ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Two of the top athletes at Santa Barbara High School Luke Zuffelato and Kai Mault were part of nine student-athletes that were celebrated at signing ceremony at Peabody ...

A Santa Barbara stabbing suspect is now facing attempted murder charges. Santa Barbara police say an arrest warrant was served on the 1300 block of Dahlia Court in Carpinteria Saturday afternoon.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. – Transportation providers across two California coastal counties are working together to offer free ...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Santa Barbara County Animal Services (SBCAS) has created a new online tool designed to reunite lost pets with their owners. The interactive mapping system is hosted by ...

Santa Barbara students just hit the big time, ditching their schools’ halls for the Broadway stage this week. Manhattan Concert Productions invited Santa Barbara Junior High teacher Rich Lashua — the ...

A customer at a KTV bar (karaoke-television bar) was shot multiple times in Santa Barbara town, Province of Iloilo. It was learned that a song cancellation led to the shooting to death of a ...

A Santa Barbara County judge has accepted a severe public censure and will step down from the bench later this year after reaching an agreement with the state's judicial discipline agency.

Anton Corbijn is a Dutch photographer, filmmaker, and video artist. He is best known for his black-and-white portraits of artists shot with slow shutter speeds to allow for the subtle movements and ...

With a goal to expand residential housing for students, UC Santa Barbara continues to advance on a development plan that will create 3,500 new student beds on the main campus, in accordance with the ...

North of downtown, the 78-acre Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is a refuge for bored beachgoers and nature enthusiasts alike. Visitors walk on unpaved paths through what, at times, looks like ...