The morning of July 16, 2022, four first responders with the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office air support unit climbed aboard what lawsuits describe as a death trap. The three crew members who ...

Westways Senior features editor Derrik Lang joins KCAL News with more of what's new in Santa Barbara. Shortsighted actions can have big-time consequences for retired workers.

Body found last week in ravine off Highway 101 south of Camarillo Springs Road identified as missing Salinas woman, more news ...

A small private aircraft crashed in an open field just north of the Storke Road offramp on Highway 101 Wednesday afternoon, ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Santa Barbara, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is accepting applications for the upcoming Citizen’s Academy ...

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. — The Erie County Sheriff's Air One helicopter has operated for two decades to help find car thieves and rescue injured or lost people. But later this year it could be gone ...

Carovano and Obi recently joined the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s K-9 Unit alongside Deputy Oscar Covarrubias and his highly trained German shepherd partner, Draco. When introducing the new K-9 ...

At the conclusion of the second, Costner — a Santa Barbara local who co-wrote, directed, produced and stars in the film — will participate in a Q&A moderated by SBIFF executive director Roger ...

There is beefed-up aerial security along the Manitoba-U.S. border. Regular Black Hawk helicopter flights targeting illegal activity started patrolling the area around the 49th parallel on Sunday, ...

For that visit, the Bidens arrived at the Santa Barbara Airport and left days later after being taken by helicopter from the Santa Ynez Valley to board Air Force One at Vandenberg.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The Alameda County Sheriff's Office wants to end parts of the Santa Rita Jail consent decree about three years early, according to legal documents filed in U.S. District Court ...

In a Global News exclusive, The West Block‘s Mercedes Stephenson got the first access to the Black Hawk helicopters that are being wrapped and prepared for use on Canada’s border patrols as ...