San Diego County Credit Union, Cal Coast announce merger plans

North Coast Current and OsideNews • April 11, 2025

San Diego County Credit Union and California Coast Credit Union plan to merge, the financial institutions announced April 11.

How to build a healthy money mindset for a stable financial future

StatePoint • January 27, 2024

Building and managing your wealth is a lifelong process that can have major implications for you, your children and other beneficiaries. While your path to building wealth should be tailored to your circumstances, this three-pronged approach from Freddie Mac can help you plan for a stable financial future.

Carlsbad budget surplus gives boost to programs, pension payments

North Coast Current • October 5, 2023

Carlsbad pension payments and community programs are among the items getting an extra financial boost thanks to funds from a budget surplus, the city recently announced.

Vallecitos Water District earns bond rating upgrade, certification

North Coast Current • September 14, 2023

The Vallecitos Water District appears to be on a positive financial footing after receiving a credit rating upgrade and certificate of excellence for its financial reporting this past week.

Local household bills pricier than U.S. average, doxo research finds

North Coast Current • August 3, 2023

California is the second most expensive state for average household bills, with Encinitas, Carlsbad, Solana Beach and Del Mar cracking the top 100 for most expensive in the state, according to statistics released Aug. 3 by consumer financial management company doxo.

Irvine-based Beach Cities Commercial Bank launches with branch in Encinitas

North Coast Current • June 27, 2023

Beach Cities Commercial Bank of Irvine announced its launch on June 12 with an Encinitas office located at 171 Saxony Road, Suite 105.

Feds, local authorities warn of latest Paypal and MetaMask phishing scam

J.W. August • May 25, 2023

The art of the scam keeps getting more sophisticated as con artists probe for profits by altering the come-ons they use to hook the unsuspecting. Check your recent emails for communications that appear to be legitimate messages from PayPal and MetaMask.

Historically Speaking: The nation’s first mail order general stores

Tom Morrow • May 10, 2023

Before there were roads connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific and Mexico to Alaska, you could buy goods delivered via railroad freight and/or the U.S. mail. This was more than a century before the Internet, all courtesy of the mail-order catalogs of the Montgomery Ward and Sears & Roebuck companies. It was the Amazon of yesteryear.

Historically Speaking: When Mr. Dow met Mr. Jones

Tom Morrow • September 29, 2022

Whether you’re a small investor or a company CEO, or neither, monitoring the daily Dow Jones Industrial Average is your way of keeping tabs on the pulse of the nation’s business health, and that’s certainly everyone’s business.

Survey: Americans lose 200 hours of sleep over debt stress

OsideNews • March 3, 2022

StatePoint: A new research study looking at how debt affects daily lives reveals that the true cost of debt is more than making the minimum payments. Having debt can also be detrimental to mental and physical...

Survey: Americans lose 200 hours of sleep over debt stress

StatePoint • February 11, 2022

A new research study looking at how debt affects daily lives reveals that the true cost of debt is more than making the minimum payments. Having debt can also be detrimental to mental and physical health, and impact life decisions.

Why vocational education is critical for many young people

StatePoint • February 11, 2019

In this high-tech era where a college degree is positioned as a necessity for success, vocational education is often overlooked. But experts say that a vocational education provides the right experience...