Santa Barbara lies between the steeply-rising Santa Ynez Mountains and the Pacific Ocean. In addition to being a popular tourist and resort destination, the city boasts a diverse economy which is ...

A Santa Barbara woman took her mail theft problems into her own hands and used an AirTag locator to help catch the alleged thieves. Monday morning, a woman called the Santa Barbara County Sheriff ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. With the fall quarter nearing its start date, student move-in activities at UC Santa Barbara will impact traffic and parking ...

This week, the National Science Foundation announced the award of a six-year, $22M grant to UC Santa Barbara under its biofoundries program for the establishment of the BioFoundry for Extreme and ...

EUGENE, Ore. — Friday night marked the first of three games between Oregon and No. 24 UCSB in a series initially scheduled in Santa Barbara. With field issues moving the series to Eugene ...

Michael Simcoe, the No. 134 overall recruit in the 2025 class, has decided to bypass multiple high-major offers to commit to UCSB, he tells 247Sports. The 6-foot-8 power forward out of Glendale (Ariz.

Credit: Pool photo President Joe Biden and his family have ended their five-day stay in Santa Barbara County. When the president’s motorcade made its way along Santa Ynez Valley roads on Sunday ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. UC Santa Barbara has been awarded $791,611 in federal funding to improve pedestrian and cyclist safety in the City of Santa ...

The best time to visit Santa Barbara is from March to May or from September to November. Temperatures are fairly mild year-round, hovering in the 60s and 70s, but traveling in early spring or fall ...

UC Santa Barbara took the top spot in a list of party schools in the U.S. for 2025, released by Niche, an education research and ranking site. To calculate the rankings, Niche — which uses a ...