“Plaza Rubio, which faces the rose garden of Mission Historical Park, is a small-scale example of early urban planning. The ...

The Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it has filed criminal charges against Lompoc ...

In the first issue of The Forge — October 1914 — the paper’s founders, successors to the short-lived Fly-Leaves (which ...

Mersea’s can be packed, but it was mellow that night. We ate calamari and grilled fish sandwiches, fish tacos, steamer clams, ...

Santa Barbara County Education Office operates behind the scenes with 500 staff and a $150M budget, impacting 70,000 students ...

Imagine a school day where your core learning happens in the morning and your afternoons are spent surfing the Santa Barbara ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service.

However, he thinks his school has “cracked the code” on guiding preteens through this often-uncomfortable chrysalis phase, so ...

Chumash peoples have spent decades standing up to those who falsely claim our identity and profit from our culture.

At Montessori Center School, peace isn’t treated as a lofty ideal or a poster that hangs on the wall — it’s woven into the ...

One study of high school students (Grades 9-12) found that those who perceived their classes as allowing autonomy, with their ...

Backed by the Santa Barbara Education Foundation, students created a zine amplifying queer voices — and learned lessons in ...