NASA launched a new telescope into space this week to study the origins of the universe and search for hidden water in the ...

California, the Camino Real runs down the American West Coast, linking 21 Spanish missions between San Diego, near the Mexican border, and Sonoma, north of San Francisco. Let us journey along a road ...

Jury selection has wrapped up in a trial for a Lompoc man accused of fatally shooting his wife and her nephew in a 2023 ...

The annual State of Vandenberg address and accompanying luncheon was held in the Pacific Coast Center located on base in Lompoc. Speakers ...

Caltrans representatives pledged to closely monitor impacts created by one safety measure planned for Highway 1 near ...

On Wednesday, the 2024-2025 Santa Barbara County Grand Jury issued a report of its findings and recommendations regarding ...

NASA’s newest space telescope rocketed into orbit Tuesday to map the entire sky like never before — a sweeping look at ...

Caltrans will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, March 12 from 6-7:30 p.m. in the Cabrillo High School cafeteria, at 4350 ...

The mission—the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer; or SPHEREx—will ...

A new spacecraft from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge, launching as early as Tuesday evening on a SpaceX rocket out of Vandenberg Space Force Base near Lompoc ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. LOMPOC, CA, February 27, 2025 – The Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with The City of Lompoc, is pleased to ...

Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building ...