The U.S. Department of Transportation is awarding 25 California projects a combined $258 million for transportation ...

The City of Goleta is helping out with one of the region's most pressing needs: child care. The city agreed at a December ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. The City of Goleta is reminding you to join us THIS Saturday morning, January 11, for our first Coffee & Community / Café y ...

Let’s look at one phenomenon in Santa Barbara County. There are numerous fissions in our sea floor in the Elwood area off Goleta and where Platform ...

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office reports the 76-year-old was with another person and crossing the street at the ...

A pregnant Santa Barbara woman plummeted to her death while hiking in Greece over the holidays. Clara Thomann, 33, fell about ...

A dozen rail-related projects in California are among those to receive funding through three U.S. Department of ...

Southern California Edison (SCE) is considering shutting off power for more than 4,100 customers in Santa Barbara County due ...

Pregnant California science teacher Clara Thomann, 33, fell 164 feet into a gorge while hiking on a Grecian island of Crete ...

Clara Thomann, 33 slipped and fell hiking near the Preveli Monastery in Crete while on holiday with her partner ...

A schoolteacher from Santa Barbara County who was six months pregnant fell to her death while hiking on the Greek island of ...

Thomann, who was six months pregnant, was pronounced dead just before the New Year after suffering multiple fractures to her ...