SACRAMENTO—State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond convened educators, students, school district leaders, and technology experts today to ...

November 10, 2026 On November 10, 2026, around 7:30 a.m., Santa Barbara Police Officers responded to the area of Garden St.

Starr King Parent-Child Workshop invites the Santa Barbara community to celebrate the season at its second annual Starr King ...

The Santa Barbara County Office of Arts and Culture (SBCOAC) received the highest score in the California Arts Council’s 2026 ...

A case for giving Tommie Smith and John Carlos the Olympic stage again, and honoring the courage they showed in 1968.

UCSB’s director of Veterans & Military Services teams up with the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation to bring the installation to campus ahead of Veterans Day.

Local high school seniors have until November 15 to apply for 2027–28 art and honors scholarships offered by the Scholarship ...

WHAT: Prescribed burn of 289 acres of brush and oak understory. WHEN: November 6-8, depending on conditions. November 6: Burning will be limited to 26 ...

Santa Barbara will travel to Baldwin Park and Dos Pueblos will host Granite Hills in the high school football playoffs.

Judge Thomas Anderle deserves a ton of credit for his career, which he has retired from according to last week’s Independent. I was lucky to have served my only jury duty on a weeklong civil case he ...

Two Los Angeles-area men were arrested early Friday morning following a reported catalytic converter theft in the Santa ...