Grief can be a funny thing. When I heard Claire Bidwell Smith talk at Godmothers last month, the author and grief therapist ...

Two young girls were killed in a single-vehicle crash on Wednesday, and major injuries were reported in a multi-vehicle ...

This edition of ON the Beat was originally emailed to subscribers on November 21, 2024. To receive Josef Woodard’s music ...

The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa ...

Under the bright lights of the Brawlin’ Betties’ home track at Earl Warren Showgrounds, two roller derby teams jammed, boogied, and blocked their way through another kickass November Knockout event.

Debates on abortion have long been linked to moral, religious, medical and political issues. But abortion policy also has considerable influence on a driving force across all walks of life in the U.S ...

A take on the “beauty and the beast” trope, I Married a Golem takes place in the “old world” shtetel setting. In this story, Ava (played by Lillian McKenzie) is tricked into marrying the lonely, local ...

The Gauchos will play at Stanford in the second round of the NCAA Tournament, on Sunday at 5 p.m. in Palo Alto.

There’s a wealth of ways to lay out this story about how Lama Dog met Sama Sama on Upper State Street and made a supergroup of brews and bites amidst sports-beaming TVs, open air breezing through ...

Tuesday’s lockdowns at Vandenberg Middle School and Manzanita Charter School were the result of a middle schooler making multiple false calls to 9-1-1, according to Lompoc Unified School District.

California voters refused to raise the statewide minimum wage to $18 an hour. Fast food and health care workers already get more.

In 2016, candidate Donald Trump captured just 31.5 percent of Santa Barbara County’s vote — the lowest support for a ...