For the second straight month, the unemployment rate along the Central Coast didn’t see much change, according to the latest data from the California Employment Development Department. Released Dec.

The Santa Barbara Foundation announced its Conservation, Environment, and Public Trails (CEPT) Grants for 2024 on Dec. 19, awarding nearly $610,000 to 26 nonprofits across Santa Barbara County.

In the mid-2000s, Jane Parnes was living happily in the Bay Area, a tenured and well-respected professor at Stanford University with two kids, the oldest about to begin high school. But while on leave ...

By Gerhard Apfelthaler Do you ever feel that you spend too much time in meetings where nothing gets done? You are not alone. In a 2019 Harvard Business Review Article, it is estimated that every day ...

With markets rebounding on December 20, most Central Coast stocks retraced some — but not all — of their declines during a week that saw the worst performance for the Dow Jones Industrials since the ...

Simi Valley-based Chatsworth Products, a global manufacturer of products that power industrial automation applications, has a new CEO and president. The company announced Dec. 12 that Ted Behrens will ...

Philanthropist Mackenzie Scott donated another $2 billion of her own wealth on Dec. 18, $10 million of which found its way to nonprofits based on the Central Coast. Scott, who was formerly married to ...

As it has done with virtually every other industry, artificial intelligence is improving efficiency in the real estate sector. “I think AI is here to stay to drive efficiency and continue to move ...

Thousand Oaks-based Wayside Energy saw one of its first big wins as a startup on Dec. 12, after the company announced it was awarded a CalSeed Concept Award worth $200,000. The grant money will go ...