Amgen Foundation gives $3M for biology education
Latest newsThe Amgen Foundation announced Oct. 12 that it would donate $3 million over three years to Mountain View-based digital education nonprofit Khan Academy. The foundation has previously provided funding to support the production of biology content for the Academy’s lessons, including new videos, articles and exercises for ninth-graders. More than 1 million students per month access Read More →
Several tri-county breweries bring home hardware at The Great American Beer Festival
Central Coast, Latest newsThe Great American Beer Festival took place on Oct. 5-7. It is the premier beer festival and competition in the U.S. with the largest collection of beers served in a public tasting event in the country. The festival took place in Denver and five Central Coast breweries took home a total of eight medals Read More →
Banana giant moves to become more sustainable
Latest newsSolar technology company Edisun Microgrids and West Hills Construction announced that it built one of the largest industrial solar facilities in the region for the Chiquita Brands warehouse in Oxnard. The 1.0 megawatt solar-tracking array utilizes 2,900 trackers on 368,000 square feet of the 528,000 square foot warehouse. This is the first project of a partnership between the Read More →
Saks Off 5th in Santa Barbara closing its store by March
Latest news, Real Estate, South CoastClothing retailer Saks Off 5th in Santa Barbara will be closing its store by March of 2018. The store’s decision to not renew its lease will leave about 47,000 square feet of retail space behind at the corner of State and Carrillo streets. With more than 40 retail vacancies on State Street already, brokers are Read More →
SimpliPhi Power to provide off-grid energy storage system in New Zealand
Energy, Latest news, TechnologyOjai-based SimpliPhi Power announced Oct. 3 that it had contracted with electricity distributor Powerco to build an off-grid renewable energy storage system called Base Power in New Zealand. The system provides supplemental or alternative energy to areas where upgrades to the network were not deemed to be cost effective. After initial trials, Powerco ordered 20 Read More →
Oak Therapeutics touts study results for dissolvable strips
Health Care & Life Science, Latest news, TechnologyOak Therapeutics, based in Oxnard, announced that it completed a study of the use of its dissolvable strips to administer an anti-tuberculosis treatment orally. A 300 milligram dose of isoniazid on the dissolvable strips given to canines entered the bloodstream at a statistically similar rate to commercial tablets, the study found. The company, a subsidiary Read More →
Calavo Growers to pay 95 cent dividend to shareholders
Agribusiness, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public CompaniesSanta Paula avocado distributor Calavo Growers announced Oct. 4 that it would pay a 95 cent dividend to shareholders, for a total of $16.7 million. Shareholders of record as of Nov. 17 will receive the dividend on Dec. 8. The company said in a news release that it was the sixth year that it had Read More →
