April 9 was the first-ever Local News Day. At Noozhawk, we just call that Thursday. For the past 6,751 days — since Oct. 16, 2007 — we’ve been doing ...

Amtrak is making it easier for San Luis Obispo County travelers by offering more daily train trips aboard the Pacific Surfliner.

South Coast commuters will have more options starting in May as passenger train service expands through Santa Barbara County. A new daily, round-trip ...

SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. – Business leaders, HR professionals and employees in Carpinteria, Santa Barbara, and Goleta are invited to the “Train to Work ...

A southbound Pacific Surfliner skirts the beach north of Carpinteria, Calif., in 2013. Surfliner service north of Goleta, Calif., is resuming after a track closure because of a washout. Bob Johnston ...

Carpinteria ended 2025 and kicked off 2026 with storms that brought 8.43 inches of rain to the area between Dec. 22, 2025, and Jan. 5, 2026. King tides of over seven feet were also recorded around Jan ...

For the first time, Metro-North will run trains past Poughkeepsie through the Hudson Valley to Albany. Some Amtrak service will also be restored. By Grace Ashford Grace Ashford has spent hundreds of ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. The Goleta Lemon Festival, presented by Rusty’s Pizza, is ready to squeeze every drop of fun from this year’s celebration, ...

A launchpad for cutting-edge technologies, the new facility helps power UCSB’s impact on innovation and U.S. economic growth In a major step toward accelerating the real-world impact of academic ...

Santa Barbara, Calif. - After years of holding on to the same fare structure, the Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District (MTD) has bumped up the cost of a bus ride across the board for riders ...

Disclosure: I rode on The Wave a total of four times without being charged a fare (the service is fare-free until mid-August). All bookings are done by my own volition. The Santa Barbara Metropolitan ...