Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – Santa Barbara County submitted its Draft Housing Element Update for 2023-2031 to the State on March ...

State officials have rejected Marin County’s plan to meet a mandate to facilitate new housing while also “affirmatively furthering fair housing.” The county received the news in a letter Thursday from ...

In school, students are taught that matter is either solid, liquid, or gas. Now, physicists discover that atoms can actually exist as solid and liquid simultaneously. It turns out, when certain ...

PITTSFIELD — Alfred E. "Alf" Barbalunga's campaign imagery does not appear to run afoul of state law. The issue of Barbalunga's use of elements of the Massachusetts state seal in some of his campaign ...