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The arrest of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter working on assignment in Russia, marks what could be a new era of peril for journalists — even those pursuing economic stories far from the front lines. The espionage charges that Gershkovich is facing make that peril very real. A seasoned reporter who celebrated his

By Holly Rusch Special to the Business Times Residents of Isla Vista’s CBC & The Sweeps apartment complex are fighting back in an ongoing eviction battle between themselves and Core Spaces, a multi-billion dollar real estate firm that recently purchased the roughly 250 apartment units. Eviction letters were delivered to all tenants on March 16,

DignityNOW Capital Campaign, a fundraising effort by DignityMoves, has raised $10 million of the $19 million it needs to build four new villages that would provide 300 additional rooms across the county. DignityMoves is the homeless non-profit responsible for building Interim Supportive Housing Villages using modular construction as well as providing social services to their

One of Tric Robotics' tractors bathes crops in ultraviolet light. (courtesy photo) San Luis Obispo-based Tric Robotics started in Delaware in 2017 making small, lunchbox-sized robots for police SWAT teams. “It was really fun and helping to save lives seemed noble, but it was really hard to have a business that way because it was

Ventech, an emerging venture and technology forum, will be hosting its first panel of the year on April 19. The event, titled “Getting to Zero: The Path to Carbon Neutrality,” will focus on the impacts of climate change and implementing meaningful sustainability practices to achieve carbon neutrality. Panelists include Phel Meyer, the director of partner

Oxnard-based Nature’s Generator, a leader in renewable solar and wind-powered home generators, announced today its in-kind donation of $27,500 to Share the Sun, a public-private coalition coordinated by the Rotary Club of St. Thomas East Eco with a mission to educate residents about renewable sustainable energy. The donations, including $22,500 in product discounts and five

Spring is the time where flowers begin blooming, animals awaken from hibernation and, of course, the time for young, budding entrepreneurs to hit the competition circuit. Here on the Central Coast, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and UC Santa Barbara are getting ready to host their respective entrepreneurial competitions. Cal Poly’s Angel Conference, hosted by

Six start-ups will be vying for more than $100,000 in equity-backed funding at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s sixth annual AngelCon business plan competition, set to take place on June 1. “We are thrilled with the quality of the startups in the lineup,” Judy Mahan, director of the Cal Poly Center for Innovation for Entrepreneurship

The April 12 release of the March consumer price index showed the burst of inflation triggered a year ago by the war in Ukraine is fading. And food prices were down for the first time since the fall of 2020. But core inflation remains “stubbornly high,” wrote Scott Anderson at Bank of the West. The

When Rick Stollmeyer was trying to sell Mindbody, the software company he co-founded, there was one buyer to whom he was particularly attracted to. Robert F. Smith’s Vista Equities was the kind of private equity firm that Stollmeyer thought would give San Luis Obispo-based Mindbody both the capital and the freedom it needed to expand.