America’s best wine festival, The Garagiste Wine Festival, will return to Solvang on Feb. 7-8 with more than 30 of the Santa ...

Aerial firefighters have always been a critical line of defense against raging wildfires. But increasingly extreme blazes and ...

Martha Graham Dance Company reminds us that our city continually reinvents itself, with or without disasters like the ...

Step into the Danish town of Solvang, and you’ll feel as though you have stepped right into the pages of a fairytale. Solvang ...

Since Jan. 7, Los Angeles has dealt with the Eaton and Palisades fires, the most destructive fires in Southern ...

The (SBMC) will host its 23rd annual event, 7:45 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 1 at the First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Laguna Blanca School eighth grader students in Santa Barbara were busy putting on a Mission to Mars ...

After finishing his four-year term as president of the United States, Joe Biden and his wife returned to the Central Coast on ...

Santa Barbara is one of California’s most quintessential beach towns. While it has traditionally been known as a Southern California hotspot for wine tasting, the burgeoning culinary scene ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA — Mission Scholars is proud to announce that three of its high school seniors have been named QuestBridge ...

More than 750 tidewater gobies were rescued from a Malibu lagoon scorched by the Palisades fire. Seared watersheds can take ...

Sometimes, all it takes is a love of tacos and a dream. That’s how Jonathan “Yona” Estrada got his start, opening Yona Redz in the 500 block of State Street five months deep into the pandemic. Now, ...