I connected with people, and it grounded me.” As chance (or karma) would have it, Paradise Found had also just come up for ...

UC Santa Barbara classicist Helen Morales on Dolly Parton’s radical empathy and the cultural power that let her hold ...

Richard Brough Rogers, a California businessman, decorated naval veteran, conservation leader, champion sailor, and sculptor, ...

Born in Big Sur and raised as a hippie flower child, Shannon Scott’s natural kid creativity got a boost from family. “My ...

After being hired as our receptionist at age 19, she’s still on the front lines at the Indy’s office manager, 36 years later.

It was the spontaneous opening ceremony of a new festival in town called SUMMERDANCE, the brainchild of East Coast transplant ...

The beginning, end, and enduring legacy of the “Santa Barbara News & Review,” which birthed the “Santa Barbara Independent.” ...

California will get over $2 billion from Meta as part of a proposed settlement in a 47-state social media addiction case. The ...

Santa Barbara supervisors vote 3-2 to erase the nearly $66,000 in transient occupancy taxes and penalties owed by Dare 2 ...

That issue launched perhaps the Indy’s proudest tradition: a cover story on the region’s Local Heroes, which remains as our ...

Even less was I a fan of what I thought was its unduly self-satisfied column of alleged media criticism called “Trixie, the ...

Preorder now for September 11 and 12, the bakery’s round challah makes a sweet addition to the Rosh Hashanah table.