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| Monday, October 31st, 2022

Good Works: CLU gets $3M in career grants; WEV marks Women’s Small Business Month

Latest news, Nonprofits

California Lutheran University was awarded just under $3 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Education to help students with career pathways and professional development. Most of the money — $2.8 million — is in the form of a five-year grant from the federal Vocational Identity and Talent in Academic Learning program, or VITAL, which Read More →

| Sunday, October 30th, 2022

Street Smarts: American Pickers looks to pick a few good collectors in California

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| Friday, October 21st, 2022

Central Coast economic development initiative scores $5M state grant

Latest news, Law & Goverment, Regions, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Top Stories, Ventura County

The Uplift Coalition, an economic development coalition of six counties along the Central Coast, has received a $5 million grant through California’s Community Economic Resilience Fund. The grant, announced Oct. 20, will fund a two-year planning process that will allow the counties of Santa Cruz, San Benito, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura Read More →

| Friday, October 21st, 2022

Street Smarts: State Street offers the fun kind of scares for Halloween

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| Friday, October 21st, 2022

Region’s unemployment rate dips below 3%

Latest news, middle, Regions, San Luis Obispo County, Santa Barbara County, Top Stories, Ventura County

The unemployment rate in the tri-county region dipped just below 3% in September, as the state of California hit a new record low of 3.9%, according to data released Oct. 21 by the California Employment Development Department. Ventura County’s unemployment rate in September was 3.3%, down from 3.5% in August. In Santa Barbara County, the Read More →

| Thursday, October 20th, 2022

Pacific Premier reports lower loan production, smaller assets than a year ago

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies

Pacific Premier Bancorp saw its net income and assets take a sharp dip in its most recent quarter, the company announced Oct. 20. The Irvine-based bank, which has nine branches in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, reported net income of $73 million, or 77 cents per share. For the same quarter in 2021, Read More →

| Thursday, October 20th, 2022

Pacific Western Bank reports income dip

Banking & Finance, Banking Industry, Earnings, Latest news, Tri-County Public Companies

Los Angeles-based PacWest Bancorp — the parent company of Pacific Western Bank, a bank with 13 branches in the tri-county region — announced a drop in net earnings from last year with net income of $122.2 million, or $1.02 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2022. In the same quarter last year, the Read More →