Three North County women were recently recognized with the 2025 Santa Barbara County Commission for Women Service Award for ...

Out-of-the-Box Theatre brings 'Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812' to Santa Barbara in a bold, immersive production at ...

There’s a lot going on in the poetry community right now. My Santa Barbara Independent colleague, George Yatchisin, will ...

Juan Felipe Herrera In celebration of National Poetry Month and the Latino Poetry: Places We Call Home initiative, Santa ...

Cecilia S. Medrano Cecilia Medrano passed away on March 15, 2025 at the age of 97. She was born in Los Angeles on Nov. 22, 1927 to Elena Rojas Beltran and ...

New palm trees have gone in to fill in the historic median on State Street at Los Olivos St. The Jelly Palms are in an area with trees as old as 1924.

The survey is part of the Residential End Uses of Water study to help water agencies plan for ways to save water in the ...

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Highlights Include a joint season opener with State Street Ballet, Mozart’s Requiem with the new Santa Barbara Symphony ...

The VOTING phase of our 2025 Best of Santa Maria Valley contest closes on Saturday night! You can vote once per day in each subcategory so make sure you get your two final votes in. Click here ...

Nobody can figure out why. By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors When half-siblings Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson inherited the Bond franchise in the mid-1990s, they received a ...

It was the first hour of the three-day St. Barbara Greek Festival and the parking lot at the orthodox church on Friday was already filling up. NIck Rantis, the general chairman of the festival ...