Unemployment rate stabilizes across tri-counties in February
The unemployment rate along the Central Coast was lower in the month of February as the pattern of a usual hike in job loss stabilized after the holiday season, according to data released on March 24 by the California Employment Development Department. Unemployment data, which is usually released in the third week of the month, Read More →
SoCalGas compressor project in Ventura to get closer look from regulators
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House approves funding for Highway 101 widening from Goleta to Ventura
A massive project to expand lanes on Highway 101 between Santa Barbara and Ventura received a slice of federal funding recently approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, after lobbying by Congressman Salud Carbajal. Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, announced on July 21 that he had secured more than $16.6 million in federal money for projects in his district Read More →
Businesses adapt as cities end pandemic policies that allowed free use of public spaces
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New Mac OS puts Ventura in the spotlight
Apple’s announcement on June 6 that it would name its next Mac operating system “Ventura” was big news in the tech press, but no surprise to the people at the Visit Ventura, the city’s visitor and convention bureau. They’d been waiting for this moment for eight years, ever since Mike Laan, Visit Ventura’s director of Read More →
Ventura artist makes Hall of Fame with his baseball works
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Community Memorial CEO to retire
Gary Wilde, who led Community Memorial Health System through a $280 million, seven-year project to build a new hospital in Ventura, will retire later this year as president and CEO of the nonprofit health care provider. Wilde, 66, came to Community Memorial Hospital in 2004 from Cottage Health System in Santa Barbara. The next year, Read More →
