SANTA BARBARA, Calif.— Following the fatal overdose of a UCSB student during Deltopia weekend, a campus program is ramping up efforts to keep the Isla Vista community safe. The fatal drug overdose ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. The UCSB HR SHRM Student Chapter had two teams compete this past weekend, March 11 and 12 in the California #SHRM Case ...

James Estrada has driven all over Southern California during the past few weeks, to strangers’ homes and grocery store parking lots, looking for a used van where he can sleep, cook and study math.

Can you outwit, outplay and outlast? That is what UC Santa Barbara student Kurt Kieu is asking the student community. When Kieu was 13 years old he wrote out and created his version of the hit CBS ...

UC Santa Barbara student dining hall workers have filed for union recognition, with a majority of them signing authorization cards to form the Student Dining Labor Union. (Rebecca Caraway / Noozhawk ...

A short film written by UC Santa Barbara student Travers Tobis was nominated for a College Television Award — an honor often referred to as a Student Emmy. Titled “The Circus Monkey,” the film is one ...

Casting "Pieces," a UCSB 106 student short film offering a lyrical portrait of Black American life. Synopsis: The story begins with a young Black boy, Franklin, asking his father, “What is it like to ...

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Juliet is your community news reporter covering the South Coast of Santa Barbara County. According to the CDC, 70% of all overdose deaths in the United States last year were caused by fentanyl. In ...