In school, students are taught that matter is either solid, liquid, or gas. Now, physicists discover that atoms can actually exist as solid and liquid simultaneously. It turns out, when certain ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. (SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – Santa Barbara County submitted its Draft Housing Element Update for 2023-2031 to the State on March ...

PITTSFIELD — Alfred E. "Alf" Barbalunga's campaign imagery does not appear to run afoul of state law. The issue of Barbalunga's use of elements of the Massachusetts state seal in some of his campaign ...

Santa Barbara County’s Draft Housing Element Update 2023-2031 (Draft HEU) received formal notice of “substantial compliance” from the State Housing and Community Development Department (State HCD) on ...

San Rafael is the latest jurisdiction in Marin County to submit its adopted housing element to the state. City officials shipped the 477-page plan to the state Department of Housing and Community ...

Sausalito has become the first in Marin to win state approval of its updated housing element, according to the city. In a letter sent to Community and Economic Development Director Brandon Phipps on ...

The California Department of Housing and Community Development decided last week that Calistoga's second draft housing element, adopted by the City Council in November, does not comply with state ...