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Inspired Flight raises $12M to accelerate growth plans

Inspired Flight CEO Rick Stollmeyer with one of the company’s drones. (courtesy photo) Rick Stollmeyer Read More >

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Kyle’s Kitchen celebrates a decade of success

Jay Ferro, right, with his son, Kyle, outside the Kyle’s Kitchen in Goleta. (courtesy photo) Read More >

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Real Estate

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$100M multifamily asset in Ventura sold; Newmark takes control of Oxnard mall

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CRE: Bombardier chooses Moorpark for manufacturing facility

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CRE: ATSU signs new lease in SLO County; Hotel Santa Barbara completes renovations

The Hotel Santa Barbara's newly renovated front Read More >

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CRE: $28M Construction loan secured for multifamily development in Santa Maria

A rendering of the Heritage Walk Lofts Read More >

Technology

Jorge Mercado | Monday, September 8, 2025

Inspired Flight raises $12M to accelerate growth plans

Inspired Flight CEO Rick Stollmeyer with one of the company’s drones. (courtesy photo) Rick Stollmeyer knows what a successful company looks like — and more importantly, he knows how to help an exciting startup mature into one. Inspired Flight, a drone manufacturing company for the commercial and defense industry, recently announced it raised $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Tri-Valley Ventures. The funding will go toward Read More >

Dubroff: An innovation culture powered by Amgen’s big deal

Health Care & Life Science

Mike Harris | Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Rose Care announces new CEO, expansion of services

Former French Hospital Medical Center president and CEO Alan Iftiniuk Read More >

Cottage Health, Livingston nursing credited for quality of care

Medi-Cal cuts to impact tens of thousands on Central Coast

Dignity Health adds second surgical robot

Wilshire Health shutters as buyout deal collapses

Agribusiness

Verifying status of immigrants vexes farmers

Verifyingimmigrant employment eligibility can be a challenge, one which Glass Read More >

Central Coast ag gross value up in 2024

200 people arrested by federal agents following Glass House raid

Feds raid area cannabis operations

Federal agents raided Glass House Farms' Carpinteria facility on July Read More >

Central Coast agriculture gross value up in 2024

The gross value of agriculture in Ventura and Santa Barbara Read More >

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