The 40” x 60” format is significant for the industry and a major commercialization milestone for NEXT Energy Technologies. (courtesy photo) By Amanda Marroquin Special to the Business Times Next ...

Sierra Bancorp, the parent company of Bank of the Sierra, announced its results for the fourth quarter of 2024 on Jan. 27, noting that consolidated net income was $10.4 million for the quarter, up ...

Santa Barbara-based Unwrap.AI founders Ryan Millner, left, the company’s CEO and Ashwin Singhania, the company’s chief product officer . The company has raised over $3 million in funding so far and ...

Simi Valley-based Jazzberry Digital Solutions, sued in January for alleged securities fraud by more than 85 investors, was ordered in 2024 to pay a $1.18 million judgment to 12 additional investors ...

Two Trump Administration policies are expected to impact agriculture in the tri-county region, and not in a good way. The new president’s threatened tariffs on Mexico and Canada would likely lead to ...

By Gerhard Apfelthaler In 1958, Leonard Read, the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) published a famous article titled “I, Pencil”, which was later popularized by Nobel laureate ...

By John Grace What’s next for investors in 2025, you ask? Bubbles last as long as everyone can hop on the carousel. Then the music stops — or worse, the carousel catches fire. With the S&P 500 ...

Kudos to Brian Talley of Talley Farms in San Luis Obispo for raising enough of a ruckus to prod the County of SLO to appeal a judge’s ruling from last November that sharply increased water releases ...

Is joining the S&P 500 a blessing or a curse? For the Magnificent Seven of tech royalty, being a top-tier company in the closely watched index clearly has advantages. But as Deckers Brands gets ready ...

The Business Times honors 50 of the region’s top women leaders in a number of private employer sectors, including finance, professional services, CRE, health care, technology and nonprofits.

Sonos Ace headphones, which CFO Saori Casey said are seeing incremental revenue growth. (courtesy photo) It has been a turbulent start to the year for Santa Barbara-based Sonos with changes in its ...