Making surgery safer: Santa Maria doctor teams up with Cal Poly
A Santa Maria anesthesiologist has invented a device to make surgery safer.
C&D hiring hundreds in Santa Maria
A sea change in the way airlines are thinking about premium travel has propelled explosive growth at C&D Zodiac, a Santa Maria manufacturer that could see employment approach the 1,000-person mark if the rebound in the aviation business remains on track.
Why developers are building new homes in the region again
A few homebuilders are cautiously tiptoeing off the sidelines and putting new single-family inventory on the market.
Construction heating up at giant Santa Maria greenhouse project
Windset Farms is building a gigantic hothouse in Santa Maria.
Nonprofit seizes opportunity to turn hassle into new facility
Question: The city wants to extend a road through your property, right through a corner where several key buildings are located. What do you do? (a) Put up a fight. (b) Sell the city the land, and use the proceeds as seed money to build a new facility on your remaining property. Santa Maria-based VTC Read More →
Editorial: Jail tax a necessary pain
In Santa Barbara County, an unusually broad coalition is backing Measure S, a public safety initiative that would at last give the Santa Maria Valley a viable way to lock up criminals. There is no doubt that Measure S has a hefty price tag. It would increase the sales tax by half a cent for Read More →
