SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Polo in Paradise is back at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club, making the beginning of another season of world-class polo. Longtime polo player and the Santa ...

Almost 10 years to the day after a massive oil spill fouled the Santa Barbara coastline and prompted the closure of several drilling platforms, a Texas-based company says it has resumed crude oil ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA, May 20, 2025 – At 6:44 am on June 29, 1925, a powerful earthquake devastated Santa Barbara, taking the ...

Memorial Day at the Santa Barbara Polo & Raquet Club with retired Marine Capt. Shannon MacGillivray McGraw and Junior Marine Peyton McGraw, along with beloved Brigadier General Fatty B of the ...

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has appointed two new members to its Board of Trustees — Venesa Faciane and Susan Parker. “Each brings a distinctive blend of personal passion and ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA – The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) is proud to once again participate in Blue Star Museums, a ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors held a moment of silence for three teens who were killed in a head-on car crash Sunday evening. The county says the teens ...

Santa Barbara Zoo officials announced on Facebook the passing of Kisa, their elderly snow leopard. Kisa was born at the Denver Zoo in 2008 and came to Santa Barbara in 2019 when she was 11 years old.

Phyllis de Picciotto, who founded the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, has died. She was 84. Daughter Lionie de Picciotto said her mother died April 14 but did not provide other details.

By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Phyllis de Picciotto, a co-founder of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, has died. She was 84. De Picciotto died April 14 of heart failure at a hospice ...

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a deadly stabbing that occurred Wednesday night. It happened in the area of San Simeon Drive and Turnpike Road in Santa Barbara at abou ...

Law enforcement divers recovered the body of a 22-year-old Santa Barbara County man from Big Bear Lake on Monday, two days after he was reported missing nearby amid a trip to the mountain resort ...