PCH to open months ahead of schedule
Highway 1 through Big Sur will reopen by April 30, two months earlier than expected, Caltrans announced April 8. The section of the highway near Rat Creek closed after a Jan. 28 mudslide that washed about 150 feet of roadway into the sea. Caltrans expected the road to reopen in early summer, but good weather Read More →
Inogen adds executive VP; co-founder Myers to step down
Inogen, a Goleta-based medical technology company that makes portable oxygen concentrators, announced April 7 that it has hired Georg Parr as executive vice president and chief commercial officer. Byron Myers, a member of Inogen’s founding team and the current executive vice president for marketing, will step down on June 4, as will Arron Retterer, the Read More →
Ventura County to enter orange tier; Santa Barbara and SLO lag behind
Ventura County will be the first in the tri-county region to reach the orange tier of California’s COVID-19 reopening system on April 7, while both Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties have failed to progress past the more restrictive red tier. Orange is the second least restrictive tier and means the spread of COVID Read More →
Bank of America buys Santa Barbara health care payment company
Axia Technologies, a Santa Barbara-based health care payment and technology company, has been acquired by Bank of America. The terms of the acquisition were not immediately announced, but in an April 2 news release announcing the deal, Bank of America said the move is part of a lager strategy to bring additional merchant services onto Read More →
Region gets $2M in state power resiliency grants
New generators, MRE rations, a tow vehicle, a transformer, a manual transfer switch and room to plan. That’s some of what the state gave the Tri-Counties when it awarded almost $2 million to the region in the most recent round of Community Power Resiliency Program funding, according to state public records provided to the Business Read More →
Dubroff: Camarillo’s library donation will preserve a piece of architectural history
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From black gold to green power: Solar project on Fillmore oil refinery site nears completion
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