Starting in 2026, Sacramento State will require freshmen to live on campus for two years. Sac State aims to expand housing ...

A nearly six-acre Montecito estate with five bedrooms and seven bathrooms recently sold for $47.59 million. Located at 1545 ...

Construction has begun on the San Benito Housing project, part of the two-stage plan by UC Santa Barbara to provide ...

Having the federal government pick winners and losers in the energy race — whether it be wind, nuclear, natural gas, or coal ...

The ordinance City Council approved last week went too far in prioritizing economic development, speed, and flexibility over ...

Santa Barbara took another step towards addressing the city’s housing crisis at this week’s city council meeting.

An affordability story in the Independent showed that in order to afford a one-bedroom apartment, you need to have an annual income of $115,000 dollars. Do we truly think $2,900 dollars is affordable ...

Developers can build housing inside commercial buildings in downtown Santa Barbara without having to include affordable units. The City Council vote was ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed three land-use bills to encourage residential construction on or near college campuses.

The Community Resource Seminars will be a series of informational presentations on affordable housing and financial ...

Three physicists, including a pair of U.C. Santa Barbara professors, received the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for essentially bridging the gap between the invisible quantum world and the world we can ...