To her great credit, Planning Commissioner Lesley Wiscomb — the personification of smart, sensible, and civil — went ...

Make plans for the last days of the season using S.B’s Complete Guide to Halloween Happenings, Haunts, and Día de los Muertos ...

A power outage near the downtown area in Santa Barbara on Wednesday morning affected customers and businesses between Mission ...

If you’ve ever applied for a mortgage, you may have noticed the sudden wave of calls and emails from lenders you never contacted. That happens because credit bureaus have been allowed to sell your ...

Flasks, stemware, new wines, and more in this wide-ranging, roundup-style newsletter; plus, stories you may have missed.

The Biden administration, under the American Rescue Plan Act, established the program in 2021; Congress allocated $5 billion ...

Launched in 2023 by Jessica Lickstein, a fourth-year sociology major and education minor, Education+ emerged from UCSB’s Environmental Leadership Incubator, a nine-month program that trains ...

This week we’d like to introduce you to the newest member of our sales team: Ariana Hugo. When she started at the Indy, she jumped into meeting her ...

The county Public Health director announced the major about-face after lobbying from advocates, labor unions, and Attorney General Rob Bonta.

There was a time, during the suave and slick ’70s pop music bubble, when it wasn’t necessarily hip to like Boz Scaggs. The ...

A substitute teacher at San Marcos High School was removed from campus Friday morning after reportedly reading the n-word ...

More than 55,000 people in Santa Barbara County could find themselves short on money to buy food next month. The Department ...