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The Santa Maria Valley Chamber, along with the Santa Barbara County Workforce Development Board, is holding its annual Business Expo and Job Fair at the Santa Maria Fairpark on Thursday. The post Local businesses and job seekers connect at Santa Maria expo appeared first on News Channel 3-12 .

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -While cacao is traditionally grown in tropical regions near the equator, one Santa Barbara chocolatier is proving it may also have a future in California. Michael Orlando, founder of Twenty-Four Blackbirds, says what started as a personal experiment 15 years ago has evolved into a small cacao...

Ventura Raceway lit up Saturday night as packed grandstands, bar-to-bar racing, and freestyle motocross energy turned the Ventura Short Track into one of the biggest live sports events on Ventura County’s spring calendar. With the stands appearing sold out and fans lining the rails around the track, American Flat...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. GOLETA, CA May 14, 2026 – The City of Goleta’s Design Review Board (DRB) will be conducting a Preliminary Design level review for the purpose of making a recommendation to the Planning Commission (PC) for a proposed new church and other design as

A controversial proposal to redevelop the former Macy’s building at Paseo Nuevo into housing has been scrapped, and Yardi Systems is now negotiating to relocate about 600 employees from its Goleta office into the State Street property. Yardi approached the city and the mall’s leaseholder, Alliance Bernstein, after the.

Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko announced today that Shaohua Sun (DOB 08/20/86), of Monterey Park, CA, and co-defendant Yanwen Gu (DOB 03/20/86) of Rosemead, CA, each pled guilty to felony conspiracy to commit elder abuse. Sun and Gu also admitted to multiple overt acts and special allegations including

United Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County will once again provide free summer meals to children and teens throughout Santa Barbara County as part of the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). Free meals will be available to all children ages 18 and younger without eligibility documentation at participating...

Santa Barbara keeps talking about housing like it’s a mystery. It’s not. We created this problem ourselves. For decades, city leaders and wealthy neighborhood groups fought new housing in the name of “protecting community character.” Projects got delayed for years. Permits got buried in process. Apartments got treated

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) The 10th annual Bissell Pet Foundation's Empty the Shelters campaign might be giving dogs something to wag their tales about. "We are currently doing a promotion with Bissell, Bissell Foundation, they allow us to wave the adoption fees for families May 1st through May 17th," said South County Volu

According to a warning sent to students, UCSB police received the report at around 11:00 p.m. Saturday