I connected with people, and it grounded me.” As chance (or karma) would have it, Paradise Found had also just come up for ...

Born in Big Sur and raised as a hippie flower child, Shannon Scott’s natural kid creativity got a boost from family. “My ...

After being hired as our receptionist at age 19, she’s still on the front lines at the Indy’s office manager, 36 years later.

It was the spontaneous opening ceremony of a new festival in town called SUMMERDANCE, the brainchild of East Coast transplant ...

The beginning, end, and enduring legacy of the “Santa Barbara News & Review,” which birthed the “Santa Barbara Independent.” ...

Santa Barbara supervisors vote 3-2 to erase the nearly $66,000 in transient occupancy taxes and penalties owed by Dare 2 ...

That issue launched perhaps the Indy’s proudest tradition: a cover story on the region’s Local Heroes, which remains as our ...

California will get over $2 billion from Meta as part of a proposed settlement in a 47-state social media addiction case. The ...

Even less was I a fan of what I thought was its unduly self-satisfied column of alleged media criticism called “Trixie, the ...

Preorder now for September 11 and 12, the bakery’s round challah makes a sweet addition to the Rosh Hashanah table.

The recent passing of Randy Mantooth, a local boy, got me thinking.

The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office Behavioral Sciences Unit (BSU) Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT), working with Sheriff’s detectives, have thwarted a potential school threat and recovered two ...