Game over. Game Seeker, 537 State St., will close Saturday after 20 years in downtown Santa Barbara. "For us at Game Seeker, ...

The Taco Bell on North Milpas Street in Santa Barbara, Calif., is one of the remaining original Taco Bell restaurants, seen ...

In UCSB’s Multicultural Center (MCC), pins are spread across a fold-out table. Each one is outlined in red, displaying an oil ...

The California Coastal Commission rejected an appeal this week against the construction of a new 250-room hotel in the City of Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone neighborhood. The project, which faced ...

SANTA BARBARA ... largely from within Santa Barbara County but they are traveling to Santa Barbara going to a show, going out to dinner and often staying in a hotel and leaving the next day ...

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said, for context, that there were 256 citations and 32 arrests in 2024, and 151 citations and 23 arrests in 2023. This year’s Deltopia event kicked ...

Mac will also play a near L.A gig at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Monday, September 29. Fans can get presale tickets to Mac DeMarco’s L.A. show at the Greek by using the presale code GREEK2025 ...

On Friday, April 4th at 9:45 a.m., detectives from the Santa Barbara Police Department were alerted to a potential burglary ring operating in the area, following a tip from an Orange County law ...

The Funk Zone is about to hit the big stage. The California Coastal Commission will vote on whether to allow a 250-room hotel in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone during Thursday’s meeting.

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA – April 4, 2025 – The Downtown Santa Barbara Improvement Association (DSBIA) is pleased to announce the ...

An offshore oil platform with Santa Cruz Island in the background in California's Santa Barbara Channel. (Marli Miller/UCG/via Getty Images) ...

New York design studio BHDM has renovated a hotel in Sunnyvale, California, leaning into the retro vibe of the 1960s property and introducing a "poolside chic" palette. The Wild Palms Hotel in the ...