Long before the red suit and flying sleigh, there was Saint Nicholas — a bishop whose acts of generosity inspired one of the world’s most enduring legends.

Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. The oldest bookstore in Santa Barbara County turned 100 this year, and many in the community say part of its ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, CA – September 4, 2025 — The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) marked its 30th ...

Charlie Kirk shooting suspect identified as Tyler Robinson: Latest updates Scientists Discovered A New Alzheimer's Warning Sign—And It Has To Do With How You Sleep US government shutdown warning ...

A group of healthcare workers in Santa Barbara were fired on Wednesday after a video apparently showing patients’ bodily fluids was posted on TikTok, according to their employer. The now-deleted post, ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Students and staff at Santa Fe High School were placed on lockdown Thursday, while police investigated a reported threat to the school. The lockdown has since been lifted. Santa Fe ...

The city of Santa Monica may be on the verge of a financial crisis and city leaders may have to declare a fiscal emergency in order to deal with a long running budget crisis that seems to be getting ...

The new Prime Video miniseries The Girlfriend is about Laura, a well-to-do American expat living in London whose maternal instincts come out when her young-adult son Daniel starts dating Cherry, a ...

Subway crime has dipped in the Big Apple — but try telling that to the victims of these transit terrors. A cluster of 63 career criminals continues to wreak havoc in the city’s underground, racking up ...

Google's video call app, Meet, is back up after a one-hour outage Monday, and Google said engineers have rolled back the change that caused the outage. Starting just before 10:30 a.m. PT (1:30 p.m. ET ...

While it's just a rumor at the moment, we're rooting for this one with all of our Autobot-loving hearts: AMD could be naming its RDNA5 graphics processors after Transformers. Word of the naming scheme ...