Santa Barbara Unified School District Superintendent Hilda Maldonado shares a few highlights from preliminary state literacy and math assessment results for the 2024-25 school year at a welcome back ...

Santa Barbara Unified students are making an academic comeback. According to new statewide testing data released Tuesday, the district’s literacy and math scores have climbed to their highest point ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – The Santa Barbara County Office of Emergency Management will conduct a test of the County’s ReadySBC ...

Nearly 80,000 Santa Barbara County residents will receive an emergency "test" notification alert from ReadySBC on Thursday at 10 a.m. The county says it's testing whether community members who have ...