By Kris Batch The holidays are usually called the most wonderful time of the year, but they are also typically the most expensive time of the year. In a recent survey from Bankrate, 54% of respondents ...

By Staff Report A new report from NAI Capital found that the Ventura County office market showed significant positive momentum during the third quarter of 2025, moving toward stabilization after a ...

Patagonia founder and ex-owner Yvon Chouinard says the company is dedicated to saving the planet. (courtesy photo) Environmentally conscious outdoor apparel company Patagonia has a lofty ambition: it ...

The Thanksgiving season has arrived and that means time with family, taking a deep breath and expressing gratitude to colleagues, friends and mentors. We’ll start with thanks to our loyal subscribers ...

Calavo CEO Lee Cole’s second retirement comes as the Santa Paula-based company’s board of directors is weighing a buyout offer and looking at other alternatives. It was just a few years ago that Cole, ...

A Limoneira lemon orchard in Santa Paula is just one example of agriculture in Ventura County. Santa Paula-based lemon and avocado grower Limoneira has sold its Chilean ranches, Pan de Azúcar and San ...

By Gerhard Apfelthaler For decades, business leaders have sketched their organizations as pyramids. At the top: executives. At the bottom: workers. In the middle: layers of managers. Some variations ...

There are going to be some changes to the masthead of the Business Times in the coming weeks, so here’s a November update from the newsroom. Publisher Linda le Brock, who has overseen our sales, ...

The Women Winemakers & Culinarians Foundation announced that its 2025 Pink Wines for the Pink Ribbon campaign, which ran from September through the end of October, raised $2,500 in support of the ...

UC Santa Barbara has been seeing a lot of wins in recent weeks. Not too long after the university celebrated two of its professors — Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis — for their 2025 Nobel ...

California is requiring all school districts, charter schools, and county education offices to implement policies limiting student cell phone use by July 1, 2026. More than 30 other states have ...

The presidents of E.J. Harrison & Sons and Agromin, Jim Harrison and Bill Camarillo, and Gold Coast Recycling General Manager George Harrison man the scissors for the big symbolic cuts of the ribbon ...