Former Ventura County CEO settles sexual harassment lawsuit
Ventura County and its former CEO, Mike Powers, have agreed to a settlement with a former employee who sued him for alleged sexual and racial harassment and discrimination from 2019 to 2021. A notice of a conditional settlement was filed in Ventura County Superior Court Feb. 24. Terms of the settlement are not disclosed in Read More →
Wyatt family makes historic $5M donation to SB Neighborhood Clinics
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CCIA 2026: Area 805 Advanced Air Mobility Test Range poised for takeoff
Waiting for FAA approval, the Area 805 project is expected to launch into the skies over Ventura County later this year. The enterprise consists of 500 square miles of proposed airspace that would serve as a primary site for advanced air mobility testing for both commercial and defense industry partners. Encompassing airspace over Camarillo, Oxnard, Read More →
CCIA 2026: Longtime friends find niche in logistics
Matt Lafferty and Brian Gonzalez have been doing things together for a long time. The two met through some like-minded friend groups while Gonzalez was attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and stayed connected even when the early parts of their career took them to other places. Even with Lafferty living in Southeast Asia for Read More →
CCIA 2026: Workforce doubles at automation pioneer
By L. Wayne Hicks Special to the Business Times The business of Trust Automation is looking up, literally. The San Luis Obispo company has secured a U.S. Air Force contract worth as much as $490 million for drone detection and drone mitigation systems, which has propelled Ty Safreno’s employee count skyward. Safreno, who founded the Read More →
CCIA 2026: Finding opportunity in climate science
By Paula Aven Gladych The Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC Santa Barbara continues to innovate when it comes to climate science, sustainability, resource management and policy, even in the face of federal funding cuts and a national anathema to environmental problems and concerns. Sarah Anderson, interim dean of the school, said Read More →
