Editor’s Note: County Office of Emergency Services (OEM) states the Community Hazard Awareness Map was developed between 2019 and 2021; several of the risk maps have evolved since then. OEM is working ...
A Workforce Housing Stabilization Program would be a coordinated strategy that pairs housing access tools with wage standards ...
In the Independent on March 26, 2026, I read an obituary that transported me back to an 18-year-old in 1963. I had Harold Kilminster as a teacher and we had a homework assignment to bring in a current ...
The exhibition featuring decades of cover stories will be on display in the downtown library through May 31, 2026.
For the first time in their 16-year history, Out of the Box Theatre Company is re-mounting a show from their production ...
The UC Santa Barbara softball team split a double header against visiting Hawaii on Saturday at Campus Diamond.
The Faulkner Gallery inside the Central Library hosts rotating exhibitions of local artists with a wide variety of mediums. From ...
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In its effort to get rid of the "happy ending" massage in the city, the police are proposing an ordinance revision that will unfairly impact long time local massage therapists and kill off valuable ...
Nena passed away at home early in the morning of March 24. Born Magdalena Ramos Alvarado on August 15, 1930 in Santa Ynez, ...
A small gathering of Family is planned for the internment, but visitors are welcome to the site at the sunrise ...
A fire is currently burning near a Vandenberg space launch complex. The fire is about 13 miles from Lompoc.