After one of the most challenging years the health care industry has ever faced due to the COVID-19 pandemic, French Hospital Medical Center has reason to celebrate. The facility has reached a ...

Despite economic uncertainty, middle market leaders are choosing to remain resilient in 2025, according to J.P. Morgan’s 2025 Business Leaders Outlook Pulse Survey released June 30. The survey ...

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The Santa Maria Valley has gone from being a transportation also-ran to an emerging hub for commerce via air and rail. The transformation is a testament to North Santa Barbara County leadership, a ...

Pacific Coast Business Times is the weekly business journal of record serving Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo counties. Now in its 21st year of publication, the Business Times has won ...

For the second time in three years, Bob Bradway raked in the most of any executive of a public company based on the Central Coast in 2024, generating a total compensation package worth $24.4 million, ...

The need for housing across California, especially here on the Central Coast, is well-documented and state leaders, including Gov. Gavin Newsom, are trying to do something about it. The California ...

The gross value of agriculture in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties increased by 7% in 2024 over 2023, according to their recently released annual crop and livestock reports. Ventura County’s ...

Shares of The Trade Desk received a nice bump in after-hours trading on July 14 after it was announced that the ad-tech company would be joining the S&P 500 beginning on July 18. The Trade Desk, which ...

Jonathan Caravello, a professor at CSU Channel Islands, was among one of the more than 200 people arrested from the federal agent’s raid of Glass House Farms’ operations in both Carpinteria and ...

• BMO is not excited about the demand side of the oil market, where demand is expected to increase to an average of 720,000 barrels per day compared to 900 last year. There are risks that demand will ...