Learning from Silence,” a memoir about losing his family's Santa Barbara home and everything he owned in a 1990 wildfire.

Back-to-back atmospheric river storms are set to hit Los Angeles County this week — giving the region much-needed moisture ...

An officer is being hailed as a hero after he rescued a pilot from a burning plane, which crashed into a field near a highway ...

The Western population of the monarch butterfly hit a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this ...

Stark aerial photos of the Eaton and Palisades fires show blocks of ash where houses used to be, and a surprising number of ...

It could rain for many hours each day in the middle of next week as the edge of one of these storms takes a swing into ...

A Culver City man has agreed to plead guilty to flying a drone that crashed into a Super Scooper firefighting aircraft, ...

State Farm, which already has rate increase requests pending, asked state officials to approve more insurance price increases ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service.

The Santa Barbara City Fire Department has received a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety (OTS) to purchase new jaws-of-life extrication ...