Santa Barbara’s flourishing food and beverage scene reached new heights in 2025. Although this affluent beach town is best known for its idyllic charm, scenic mountain-meets-ocean landscape and many ...

Alli Kodros holds up the plaque showing that the Village Dispensary won in the best dispensary category at the Best of the Best banquet at Lewis & Clark Community College on Friday night, Dec. 5, 2025 ...

Archaeologists digging beneath the Palace of Westminster recently unearthed priceless historic treasures – some of which even predate Stonehenge. In a Nov. 19 announcement, the Houses of Parliament ...

Many of the best 55-inch TVs are on sale for Cyber Week, including our best overall pick, the LG OLED Evo C5. For more deals, check out our roundup of the best Black Friday TV deals. For many living ...

Museums, and libraries, and statues -- oh my! Lea Suzuki/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images; Jair Cabrera Torres/picture alliance via Getty Images; Screen Archives/Getty Images AIDS Memorial ...

Pope Francis dons a headdress during a visit with Indigenous peoples at Maskwacis, the former Ermineskin Residential School, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Maskwacis, Alberta. Credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay, ...

Founders Sadie Bush and Shae Fitzgerald lead the Girls Running Late SB group in a 2-mile run once a week. Credit: Pricila Flores / Noozhawk photo Two local best friends, separated by their rival high ...

OAKLAND — At least two people stole more than 1,000 items from a storage facility containing artifacts belonging to the Oakland Museum of California earlier this month, authorities said Wednesday.

Noozhawk was selected as the best Santa Barbara-based website for the Independent’s Best of Santa Barbara 2025 reader poll. Our staff of reporters, editors and photographers work hard every day to ...

We sure are living in interesting times. Whether you adore or abhor what’s happening in Washington, you can’t deny the news coming from our capitol, not to mention overseas, is relentless. So, let’s ...

Healing Heart Herbs & Acupuncture is a Bath Street wellness center offering acupuncture and herbal medicine. Dr. Charles Sciutto, trained in Chinese medicine and herbalism, leads the 15-year-old ...

Flins is an Electro Polearm 5-star character in Genshin Impact. Flins is the first on-field Lunar-Charged DPS character. Flins uses the Moonsign mechanic, which is exclusive to Nod-Krai characters in ...