Composer Danny Elfman reveals how he fought to sing for Jack Skellington in The Nightmare Before Christmas, despite initially ...

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 ...

Cmdr. Adam Ochs, left, seen here conducting a tour at Sattahip Naval Base, Thailand, on July 7, was relieved of his duties as commanding officer of the USS Santa Barbara on Thursday. (Sgt. Mitchell ...

Days of speculation about whether Prince Harry would meet his father during his visit to the UK were ended today after the Prince was seen arriving at Clarence House. Harry was driven into the central ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ICE was hiring officers in Texas, part of a huge ramp-up to its work force. The Times was there. By Jess Bidgood and Nicholas Nehamas Last month I asked you, the readers of this newsletter, to share ...