Early next year when the state closes sections of the Santa Barbara County coast to fishing as Marine Protected Areas, or MPAs, there still might be a small number of people out there hunting for sea life, as the Santa Ynez Band of Mission Indians is petitioning this week before the state Fish and Game Commission to be exempted from the closures
To save the endangered steelhead, environmentalists are working to shut down anglers on the Sespe and Sisquoc creeks.
Mobile-home owners in Santa Barbara County are on edge as new rules are being proposed to protect them in the event that their landlords decide to sell the land beneath them.
On November 12, a group of proudly small-time winemakers will share their hard-to-find stuff in Paso Robles.
Here are three bottles recently corked and enjoyed from The Santa Barbara Independent‘s wine cave.
Inside the debate between residents, developers, and county planners over what the next 20 years should look like in the Eastern Goleta Valley.
In time for People Helping People’s November 12 farmworker benefit dinner, here’s how one man went from grapevine pruner to head winemaker.
Bryan Hope, owner of Sustainable Vine Wine Tours, made a chardonnay to honor his mother, who died of MS last year.
Exploring bottles made from the vineyards of Michigan.
Those interested in supporting or fighting the plan to end the 24-year-old translocation program now have until November 21.
