Santa Barbara CA

California regulators are moving forward with plans to dismantle an aging offshore oil platform near Goleta. The California State Lands Commission launched an Environmental Impact Report, or EIR, to examine how removing Platform Holly could affect marine life and the coastline. The platform’s 30 oil and gas wells...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Los Angeles, California – Heavy snow and 70 mph wind gusts could shut down stretches of Interstate 5 over the Grapevine overnight, creating near whiteout conditions before sunrise Friday. According to the...

Boosted by this week's storms, Lake Casitas in the Ojai Valley reached its full capacity and started to spill on Feb. 18, officials said. Less than two years after it last spilled , the reservoir designed to hold enough water to make it through a 20-year drought hit that mark again. On Wednesday morning, the lake...

A Los Angeles County man has been arrested in connection with a January 17 burglary in Carptineria, where hundreds of thousands of dollars of legally grown cannabis were stolen. The burglars fled before Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s deputies could reach the farm. The sheriff’s office has identified Dvaryae Bryant...

High winds blew through Santa Barbara County early this week. People saw bursts of downpour and strikes of lightning that were followed by rumbling thunder. On Monday, a eucalyptus tree toppled across southbound Highway 101 in Goleta, closing it for several hours. Early Tuesday morning, Santa Ynez Valley residents...

An alleged Los Angeles burglar was arrested today on charges he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of marijuana from a Carpinteria-area cannabis grow a month earlier. Shortly before 2 a.m. on Jan. 17, deputies responded to a report of a burglary that had just occurred in the...

Country Herald is Local News, Independent Pulse. Covering breaking local news, sports, lifestyle and events. Los Angeles, CA – Snow and powerful wind gusts could shut down stretches of the Interstate 5 Grapevine within hours, as up to 12 inches of accumulation and 70 mph winds batter higher elevations through 7...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Anna Bower, Associate Curator of Living Collections and Nursery Manager at Ganna Walska Lotusland, has received the Bouquet of the Year Award from the Santa Barbara County Horticultural Society, the Society’s highest honor. The award recognizes...

Livable Ventura has reached a legal settlement with the Daly Group regarding the proposed Two Eleven project. The project will be located at the corner of Thompson Blvd. and Figueroa St. It will be six-stories in height and will have 94-units. The project includes both affordable units and market rate units. It also...

Sign Up to get Nick Welsh’s award-winning column, The Angry Poodle delivered straight to your inbox on Saturday mornings. STOP ME: Really, lipstick on a pig? That seems a little harsh. But, with the Pollyanna optimism I’m wearing these days as psychological body armor, I prefer to think of it as “a first step.” I’m...