Santa Paula Airport has been flying high for 90 years
Airport has a rich 90-year history in Santa Paula.
Well Health closes $45M venture round
Santa Barbara-based Well Health, one of the companies closing the digital divide between patients and Read More →Guitar Center declares debt in the billions
Westlake Village-based Guitar Center filed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on Nov. 21, shedding more Read More →Vandenberg advocates vow to keep fighting
Advocates of Vandenberg Air Force base as the headquarters for the U.S. military’s new Space Read More →
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Dive boat captain indicted on 34 manslaughter charges
The captain of the dive boat Conception, which was destroyed last year in a fire in the Santa Barbara Channel that killed 34 people, was Read More →
Changing of the guard: Totten nears final month as Ventura County District Attorney
Greg Totten is stepping down on Jan. 9 after 18 years as Ventura County District Attorney to become the CEO of the California District Attorneys Read More →
Amgen joins new cooperative trials for COVID treatment
With COVID-19 continuing to surge across the globe, a coalition of pharmaceutical companies including Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has announced a joint trial for new coronavirus Read More →
Guitar Center declares debt in the billions
Westlake Village-based Guitar Center filed its Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition on Nov. 21, shedding more light on the company’s financial status after it announced a Read More →
Trade Desk CEO, CSUCI team up to help students stay in school during pandemic
CSU Channel Islands is helping its student stay in school and graduate with $500,000 in funding for scholarships and peer mentors from Jeff Green, the Read More →
Inmates may have taken state for $1B in fraudulent unemployment benefits
California’s unemployment benefits system has been rife with fraud since the pandemic began and may have handed out upwards of $1 billion to jail and Read More →
QAD reports slight revenue dip, big earnings jump
Profits at Santa Barbara-based software firm QAD hit $3.2 million in the third quarter of 2020, up from $125,000 in the same quarter of 2019, Read More →
Montecito Bank & Trust hands out nearly $1.2M in charitable grants
Montecito Bank & Trust upped the ante for the 2020 round of its corporate philanthropy, giving away $1.175 million at its 18th annual Community Dividends Read More →
Ventura County approves $1K grants for area’s farmworkers
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors approved $3.65 million in federal coronavirus funding to support the Farmworker Household Assistance Program, which got more than 4,000 Read More →
Kate Farms secures $51 million round to finance expansion
Richard and Michelle Laver, the founders of Kate Farms, started their journey in 2011 when the two were intent on helping their young daughter, Kate, Read More →
New York Fed president sees light at the end of the tunnel
As president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, John Williams occupies one of the most powerful positions in central banking at Read More →
Tri-county unemployment down to 6.8% in October
The unemployment rate dropped by a full percentage point or more in each of the region’s three counties between September and October, according to data Read More →
Newsom issues COVID curfew for most of state
Gov. Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health announced a limited “stay-at-home order” requiring all non-essential work, travel and gatherings to stop between Read More →
As COVID cases rise, region takes step back on road to re-opening
The entire tri-county region is going back into the most restrictive tier of California’s pandemic reopening system, as a rise in cases across the state Read More → Guitar Center plans to file Chapter 11, cites pandemic’s effect on sales
Westlake Village-based Guitar Center plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing the pandemic as a major strain on the company’s resources. In a Nov. Read More →
Wedding industry businesses struggles during pandemic
With large events shut down due to COVID-19, florist Tracey Morris has focused on smaller weddings, like this one held at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara on Read More →
Salem Media back in black after cost-cutting
Salem Media Group, a Camarillo-based owner of conservative radio stations and other media properties, had net income of 1 cent per share in the third Read More →
CSUCI administrator named next interim president
Richard Yao, the vice president for student affairs at CSU Channel Islands, has been named the university’s interim president by CSU Chancellor Timothy P. White. Read More →
Totten to retire after 18 years as Ventura County district attorney
Greg Totten Ventura County will get just its third district attorney in the past 42 years next year, when Greg Totten retires from the post Read More →
Resonant reports growing revenue, shrinking losses
Resonant, a Goleta-based cellular technology company, reported its third quarter earnings on Nov. 10 with a net loss of $6.1 million, or 11 cents per Read More →
Sientra shares up on news of earnings, new CEO
Goleta-based medical and surgical device company Sientra saw total net sales drop in the third quarter and a net loss of $5.8 million, or 12 Read More →
AppFolio earnings up as sale of MyCase unit closes
AppFolio, the Goleta-based property management software company, beat analysts’ expectations on Nov. 9 with earnings of $3.86 per share for the third quarter of 2020, Read More →
PennyMac notches another strong earnings report
PennyMac Financial Services more than tripled its net income over the course of a year when it reported $535.2 million, or $7.03 per share, in Read More →
CLU economists see opportunity in Ventura County’s struggles
Ventura County was already in an economically vulnerable place when the pandemic hit, according to the latest report from California Lutheran University’s Center for Economic Read More →
Trade Desk soars above $700 per share on strong earnings report
Ventura-based advertising technology developer The Trade Desk delivered strong third quarter financial results on Nov. 5, including growth in revenue, net income and earnings per Read More →
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