Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. The County of Santa Barbara announced that a public town hall on the Modoc Multii-Use Path project will be held this week to ...

A crowd fills the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors hearing room Tuesday for the meeting on the Modoc Road multi-use path project. (Grace Kitayama / Noozhawk photo) Tuesday’s meeting of the ...

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 ...

California’s Marin and Modoc counties lie more than 200 miles apart — and several worlds away. Modoc, tucked into the state’s remote northeast corner, lacks a single traffic light. Many of its 8,500 ...