Santa Barbara-based Montecito Bank & Trust is growing its C-suite after the bank announced that it has promoted Heather Ames to executive vice president and chief people officer. In this new role, ...

The brothers who co-founded Meathead Movers in San Luis Obispo in 1997, building it into one of the largest independent moving companies in California, are now battling each other in court. The legal ...

Amy Weaver has never been one to back down from a challenge. When she graduated from Harvard Law, instead of immediately going to work for a firm, she followed her heart and moved to Hong Kong, ...

A couple of months after Farmers & Merchants Bank of Long Beach announced its intention to grow its tri-county presence, Farmers & Merchants Trust company is doing the same thing with a new hire to ...

Glenn Burdette has sold to regional accounting and advisory firm Ascend for an undisclosed amount, the San Luis Obispo-based CPA firm announced on June 1. Ascend, backed by private equity firm Alpine ...

Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County is one of the many tourist attractions spread throughout the region. (courtesy photo) San Luis Obispo County is a small area with a big heart — and a growing ...

By John Grace We all know no one can predict the future. If we could, we’d all be sipping piña coladas in our beachside mansions bought with Bitcoin in 2012. Instead, we’re squinting at the horizon ...

Pacifica Graduate Institute will be looking for a new CEO to steer the ship after current president/CEO Dr. Leonie Mattison steps down later this summer. Mattison, who is currently on leave, confirmed ...

You might call Fabien Reille an accidental success in the construction industry. You can also call him the Small Business Person of the Year for the SBA’s Los Angeles District. How Reille became the ...

Stradling Law, with offices in Westlake Village and Santa Barbara, can hang with the big boys. With far fewer attorneys than such Southern California-based mega firms as Latham & Watkins and Gibson, ...