Thursday Heat Advisory Update: Some Schools Shifting to Minimum Days
This message is an update on the operational changes required due to this week’s heat wave. Harding, McKinley, Santa Barbara
Year: 2026
Sheriff’s Investigation Thwarts School Threat, Explosive Devices Recovered
The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office Behavioral Sciences Unit (BSU) Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT), working with Sheriff’s detectives, have thwarted a
Dianne Vapnek, Dancing Queen
Paying tribute to a Santa Barbara dance legend.
The Maoist Collective That Changed Santa Barbara Media
The beginning, end, and enduring legacy of the “Santa Barbara News & Review,” which birthed the “Santa Barbara Independent.”
A Look Back at Our First Issue Ever
Here are some highlights from the November 26, 1986 debut of the “Santa Barbara Independent.”
The Angry Poodle’s Birth Story
How our column emerged from a merger and nails the plot every Wednesday morning.
Tanya Spears Guiliacci Is the Voice of the ‘Independent’
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.
Tenants and Landlords
It isn’t easy making it in Santa Barbara. It has always been that way.
Santa Barbara Taking Baby Steps Toward Solving Sheriff’s Office Overtime Crisis
The supervisors adopted a raft of Grand Jury recommendations as Brown cautioned more “difficult discussions” are ahead.
Meta to Pay $17 Billion — and Limit ‘Likes’ for Teens — in Social Media Settlement with States
California will get over $2 billion from Meta as part of a proposed settlement in a 47-state social media addiction case. The trial kicked off just last week in a federal court in Oakland.
