A Workforce Housing Stabilization Program would be a coordinated strategy that pairs housing access tools with wage standards ...

The exhibition featuring decades of cover stories will be on display in the downtown library through May 31, 2026.

For the first time in their 16-year history, Out of the Box Theatre Company is re-mounting a show from their production ...

In the Independent on March 26, 2026, I read an obituary that transported me back to an 18-year-old in 1963. I had Harold Kilminster as a teacher and we had a homework assignment to bring in a current ...

Editor’s Note: County Office of Emergency Services (OEM) states the Community Hazard Awareness Map was developed between 2019 and 2021; several of the risk maps have evolved since then. OEM is working ...

The UC Santa Barbara softball team split a double header against visiting Hawaii on Saturday at Campus Diamond.

Rent stabilization is not simply about setting a cap on rent increases. It requires a permanent administrative structure ...

In its effort to get rid of the "happy ending" massage in the city, the police are proposing an ordinance revision that will unfairly impact long time local massage therapists and kill off valuable ...

This movement was first launched in Ecuador in 2008 when it established a framework of legal rights of nature: the rights of ...

Lowe was less flamboyantly apocalyptic. Normally at this time of year, coastal ocean temperature would have been in the high fifties. Right now, the water off our coast is about 62-63 degrees. Sharks ...

More than 18 bands and 13 deejay sets are slated for Saturday’s sanctioned spring festival, which promises free food for ...

Kicking off the Monday symposium was California Agave Council President Stuart Woolf, a prominent farmer of almonds, tomatoes ...