A couple of months after Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach announced its intention to grow its tri-county presence, Farmers & Merchants Trust company is doing the same thing with a new hire to ...

Glenn Burdette has sold to regional accounting and advisory firm Ascend for an undisclosed amount, the San Luis Obispo-based CPA firm announced on June 1. Ascend, backed by private equity firm Alpine ...

By Amber Hair Wednesday, May 28th, 2025 . The Pacific Coast Business Times would like to congratulate the following companies for their inclusion in the 2025 Central Coast Best Pl ...

Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County is one of the many tourist attractions spread throughout the region. (courtesy photo) San Luis Obispo County is a small area with a big heart — and a growing ...

Pacifica Graduate Institute will be looking for a new CEO to steer the ship after current president/CEO Dr. Leonie Mattison steps down later this summer. Mattison, who is currently on leave, confirmed ...

Tourists and Santa Barbara residents at Stearns Wharf in June. (Courtesy photo) The economic impacts of travel in California, including the tri-county region, increased year-over-year in 2024. That’s ...

Moorpark has a new city manager. PJ Gagajena, who has served as Moorpark’s assistant city manager since 2020, will succeed City Manager Troy Brown, officials announced May 27. Brown has served as ...

As we enter the start of the summer tourism season, we’re going to make a not-very-bold prediction — tourism will do what it does best in uncertain times and muddle through 2025. From the headlines, ...

Stradling Law, with offices in Westlake Village and Santa Barbara, can hang with the big boys. With far fewer attorneys than such Southern California-based mega firms as Latham & Watkins and Gibson, ...

You might call Fabien Reille an accidental success in the construction industry. You can also call him the Small Business Person of the Year for the SBA’s Los Angeles District. How Reille became the ...

The Women's Fund of Santa Barbara awarded a nonprofit best $1.25 million in grant funding to 11 local nonprofits on May 20. This accomplishment was made possible through the generosity of 1,426 local ...

Mitch Zacks at Zacks Investment Management is doing a deeper dive into the Moody’s downgrade of U.S. Treasury debt. Downgrades are lagging indicators and they can be deeply flawed — note Enron and sub ...