Santa Barbara's five-star gem El Encanto Hotel is under new ownership after Justin Mateen, Tyler Mateen and the Cayton family combined to purchase the historic estate for $82.2 million. Announced July ...

Weeks after a deal to buy it fell through at the last minute, nonprofit Wilshire Health & Community Services in San Luis Obispo closed June 30. With the purchase off the table, the home healthcare and ...

San Luis Obispo County has always been known for its great beauty and even better wine, but for the past decade-plus, Cal Poly has been embracing innovation and entrepreneurship. We here on the ...

There are two good reasons to believe the recent ICE activity in Ventura is not based on any actual plan or strategy to improve public safety. The first is crime statistics. A look at California’s ...

Here’s a report from the Business Times newsroom as we head into the second half of 2025 and offer a sneak peek at what’s ahead for the rest of our 25th anniversary year. There has been plenty of dram ...

A Royal Arroyo escrow firm is suing its former escrow manager for allegedly embezzling $545,557 from it. Opus Escrow’s suit also names a second defendant, Qualia Labs, a digital real estate closing ...

By Vlad Vaiman In recent years, birth rates dropping well below replacement levels has caused a worldwide seismic demographic change. Despite increased life expectancy, many nations — including the ...

Dantona, a lifelong Democrat, is running for the County's Second District — a district currently held by the retiring Supervisor Bruce Gibson. “I’m running for Supervisor because I ...

Saalex Corporation, which was founded in Camarillo and still houses major operations in the area, announced it has acquired Greenfield Engineering Corporation for an undisclosed amount on July 7.

By Starr Hall While Silicon Valley often dominates the headlines, the real story of artificial intelligence (AI) innovation is quietly taking root on the Central Coast, from Ventura to San Luis Obispo ...

Many of the major indices are hitting record highs the week of June 30 and, as a result, some of the tri-county's biggest stocks are also seeing some of that payoff. The end of the fiscal year for ...

When I met Teledyne executive chairman Robert Mehrabian at his office in Thousand Oaks earlier this year, I came away thinking I had just been introduced to a multi-talented scientist-entrepreneur. So ...