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I first got to know Vince Stanley five years ago when the Business Times held its Central Coast Innovation Awards in the wake of the Thomas Fire and Montecito Mudslides. We had not given a lot of coverage to Patagonia until then and the Business Times sometimes felt that Patagonia’s stands against development were making

Patricia Keelean CommUnify’s CEO Patricia Keelean has been selected as one of the 2024 Top 50 Women in Business by the Pacific Coast Business Times.

Lou Kilzer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Denver Post reporter and editor who spent decades uncovering corruption and misinformation, died Wednesday in Colorado Springs.

Lou Kilzer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Denver Post reporter and editor who spent decades uncovering corruption and misinformation, died Wednesday in Colorado Springs.

It’s December and we’re fighting fires again. Ventura County’s South Fire, which broke out December 9, burned more than 2500 acres before it was largely contained a few days later with minimal damage. Lompoc and Santa Barbara County officials are also investigating recent brush fires near the La Purissima Mission State Park. And the area

Watching the stream of advertisers leaving X, formerly Twitter, grow from a stream into a torrent, I’m wondering if it’s time for the industry to make an about-face and embrace local media again. Disney, Apple, IBM, United Airlines, Audi and Volkswagen are among the dozens of companies reportedly pausing or pulling their ads on X,

If the long reign of the lithium battery is going to come to an end, it may be research by a UC Santa Barbara scientist that helps to deliver a cheaper and less geopolitically risky solution. Raphaele Clement, an assistant professor in materials science at UCSB, has been testing innovative approaches to new battery chemistry

It was one of the biggest economic events in the history of the Central Coast. And it happened exactly 150 years ago. The creation of Ventura County, born out of Santa Barbara County in 1873, required an act of the California Legislature. It was the work of enterprising leaders in the area who saw the

Reading “The Future of the Responsible Company,” the latest book by Vincent Stanley with Yvon Chouinard, is a bit like putting on your favorite piece of Patagonia clothing. It is functional. Stylish. And it makes a statement about how you feel about the planet. The timing of this work, a follow-up to “The Responsible Company,”

When I arrived on the Central Coast in the fall of 1999 to start the Business Times, the Santa Barbara News-Press represented a formidable challenge. Under the leadership of Steve Ainsley, the New York Times-owned newspaper held a position of thought leadership in the community and its reporting on environmental issues was world class. One