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After a three year hiatus, Delta Air Lines is returning to the Santa Barbara Airport. On Sept. 15, the airport announced a nonstop Delta flight from Santa Barbara to Atlanta as well as two additional nonstop flights from Santa Barbara to Salt Lake City. The routes will begin June 7, 2024. Salt Lake City service

A Mission Produce packing house in Oxnard. Mission’s sales fell 20% year-over-year to $221.1 million in the third quarter of 2023. (courtesy photo) Calavo Growers, Mission Produce and Limoneira Company all declined in revenue year-over-year from May through July due to the lower costs of avocados, according to the earnings reports from each company. Santa

Lompoc Valley Medical Center located at 1515 E. Ocean Dr. in Lompoc. (courtesy photo) Lompoc Valley Medical Center has agreed to pay a $5 million settlement as part of a state and federal false claims investigation in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. In total, $95.5 million has been recovered from various healthcare organizations

There’s an important thread of entrepreneurship emerging as CSU Channel Islands grows its endowment by leaps and bounds. First is the Martin V. Smith family, which has donated more than $20 million to the University and started the ball rolling with a naming gift for its school of management. A member of the Business Times

The Housing Land Trust Ventura County was awarded $75,000 in funding support from the Weingart Foundation through their Unrestricted Operating Support program, the firm announced on Sept. 12. The nonprofit will receive $75,000 over two years in support of Housing Land Trust VC’s mission to provide permanently affordable housing opportunities on donated land, the organization

When the Business Times recognized the home-grown Latino GDP project with our annual Latino Leadership award in July, we knew that the team from California Lutheran University’s Center for Economic Research and Forecasting and the School of Medicine at UCLA was working on their next report. And it was a blockbuster. Released just before press

A strawberry farm in Ventura. Strawberries were again the biggest crop by revenue in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties in 2021. (file photo) Strawberries remain agricultural royalty in the tri-county region. The succulent red fruit in 2022 was once again the No. 1 crop in Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, according to

Goleta-based Inogen, a medical device company specializing in portable oxygen containers, said Kristin Caltrider stepped down from her CFO role for personal reasons, the company announced on Sept. 7. Inogen stated in a press release that Caltrider’s decision was not related to any disagreements with the company or its management on “any matters relating to

Occuspace's product. (courtesy photo) Occuspace CEO and co-founder Nic Halverson is glad he did not have more money from the pitch contest he won while he was in college in 2018. If he had more funds, he would have bought the more expensive technology to make his product. But if Halverson did that, Occuspace would

My column this month concerns one of the more offbeat, yet still serious, cases prosecuted of late in the tri-county area. I also touch on another case which, while not as unconventional, is fairly eyebrow-raising coming as it does during California’s drought and involving a public water official. But first things first. Wine company Ocean