“Go very light on the vices,” the legendary Satchel Paige famously advised. “The social ramble ain’t restful.” Our admiration for the...

In the latest installment of Newsmakers TV, Nick Welsh details City Attorney Ariel Callone’s righteous legal crusade against Dario Pini...

Kelsey Brugger, a talented young journalist upon whose reporting Santa Barbara Independent readers have come to rely, is leaving town –...

Santa Barbara public schools chief Cary Matsuoka went to San Marcos High on Monday night to ask parents what qualities they want in their...

Behind-the-scenes, the grassroots group that ended citywide city council voting in Santa Barbara has met with superintendents throughout...

In the first stop of her Farewell Road Trip, 2nd District Supervisor Janet Wolf sat down for a half-hour, one-on-one conversation on...

Longtime Montecito resident Bill Macfadyen, publisher and founder of Noozhawk, joins the panel this week for some first-hand perspective...

Last week, the owners of a one-story home on Santa Elena Lane sought preliminary approval from the Montecito Board of Architectural...

Laura Capps, the only Santa Barbara school board member who opposed the unpopular demotion of San Marcos High School Principal Ed...

In their first public comments on the matter, the two top leaders of SB's school board sidestepped questions about an evolving campaign...

Kate Parker, the longest serving board member of the Santa Barbara Unified School District, confirmed to Newsmakers this week that she...

More than 150 parents pledged time and money Wednesday night to a campaign to unseat four members of Santa Barbara’s school board, as the...

As a powerful storm neared the South Coast on Monday, a new mandatory evacuation order for all residents below burn areas conveyed a...

Whatever else four members of the Board of Education thought they'd accomplish last week, with their closed-door votes to dump San Marcos...

In her first public comments on the matter, Susan Epstein said on Friday that neither Gregg Hart nor anyone in his campaign pushed her...

Air Force One is due to set down at LAX around 11:30 PDT on Tuesday, marking Donald Trump's first visit to California since becoming...

Now that the initial emergency has passed, and the scope of the human tragedy of the Montecito disaster is clear, the community must cope...

A sold-out crowd of 200 turned up to celebrate the Santa Barbara Political Women’s Committee 30th anniversary on Friday - but the biggest...

Newsmakers TV is up with a new show, as Melinda Burns, Laura Capps, Dale Francisco and Josh Molina join Jerry for a roisterous review of...

In her rookie year in the U.S. Senate, Dianne Feinstein labored to pass a federal ban on assault weapons, to chuckles and condescension...