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 released Nov. 20 by the California Unemployment Development Department. Ventura County’s unemployment rate in October was 7.1%, down from 8.3% the previous month. In Santa Barbara County, the rate was Read More →
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 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. for the vast majority of the state’s population. The curfew order applies to all counties in California that are in the most restrictive, or purple, Read More →
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 forced Gov. Gavin Newsom to take emergency action. Under the state’s rules, all three counties would have re-entered the purple tier on Nov. 24, the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, if case Read More →
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 quarter, digging the company out of the hole it was at the same time in 2019. In the third quarter of 2019, Salem posted a $20.0 million net loss, which Read More →
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. Yao will assume leadership of the Camarillo-area university on Jan. 11, when current president Erika Beck leaves to becomes president of CSU Northridge, White’s office announced Nov. 12. Yao, who Read More →
Ventura County will get just its third district attorney in the past 42 years next year, when Greg Totten retires from the post he has held since 2003. Totten announced his retirement on Nov. 10. It will take effect Jan. 9 After he leaves office, he will take the job of chief executive for the Read More →
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 Research and Forecasting. CLU CERF presented its research and findings in a live webcast on Nov. 5, focusing on where the county has been, where it is now and where Read More →