Each year is unique in the joy, wonder, and heartache it can bring. Each year is the same in that our photographers and visual journalists spend it traversing the state to bring you those moments. We ...

Oakland police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead last week. Officers were sent to the 1700 block of 28th Avenue in East Oakland just after 9:30 p.m. Wednesday after the city's gunfire ...

The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy here. A new prescribed burn, called ...

FBI agents raided at least one apartment in Oakland. Nine members of the Oakland Sureños were charged with racketeering in connection with 2 slayings and 3 attempted murders. Eight men will appear in ...

Over several rivers and through even more woods, flags advocating secession from California flutter above hills dotted with cattle, which outnumber people at least sixfold. This ranching region with a ...

The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom. Read more on our AI policy here. A new wildfire was reported today ...

The Modoc project’s final mile will connect an eight-mile-long Class I (multi-use) network of pathways that reaches from Isla Vista to Arroyo Burro Beach and the City of Santa Barbara. This ...

OAKLAND — As one of Barbara Lee’s first major initiatives as mayor, the city will open a new Office of Homelessness Solutions to head Oakland’s response to one of its most entrenched issues. From ...

At 4 o’clock on Thursday afternoon, right around the time Gov. Gavin Newsom was signing his redistricting plan into action, with the thermometer reading 107 degrees, I walked across our living room ...

U.S. News & World Report has dubbed Oakland the second most dangerous place in the country. Oakland came in second to Memphis, Tennessee, in U.S. News & World Report's rankings. No other California ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Construction is expected to begin this fall on Phase II of the Modoc Multi Use Path. | Credit: County of Santa Barbara (SANTA ...