Oxnard News

The former girlfriend of murder defendant Alex Compian testified Friday that she received a cellphone call from him on Christmas Eve 2009 saying that he had just "smoked a homie" who had accused him of beingA aA snitch.

It's time for a quarterly roundup of lease deals from around the region. Over the last few months banks, restaurants, wineries and investors have snagged more space.

She grew up as the one in charge of her two younger siblings because her parents were seasonal field workers, which meant they toiled from sunrise to sunset picking fruits and vegetables from Oxnard to Valencia.

Victor Espinosa looks out over the solar panels he helped install as he and fellow electrician Pedro Renteria perform testing to make sure the panels are working properly at Pacifica High School in Oxnard.

Fremont Intermediate School in Oxnard celebrated its 50th anniversary Thursday, uniting former and current students to socialize over dessert and praise the school's traditions andA accomplishments.

July 31, 2011 was not a particularly hot summer day, there was even a little rain that fell, cooling the morning as I drove north from Santa Monica along the California coast through Malibu on my way to the Ventura County town of Oxnard.

Oxnard Elementary School District Superintendent Jeff Chancer typically leads board meetings and crunches numbers to balance a shrinking budget.

Registration will start at 8:30 a.m. at the Elks Lodge, 158 N. Conejo School Road.

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An underground water line break flooded and significantly damaged the first floor of an office building in Oxnard Wednesday night, fire officials said.

About 8:10 p.m. Oxnard police officers responded to report of gunfire in front of a trailer park in the 1800 block of Ives Avenue.

Democrat Das Williams and Republican Rob Walter are competing for the position of assemblymember representing California's 37th district, the recently redrawn region encompassing the southernmost half of Santa Barbara County and areas of Ventura County reaching to Oxnard.

One of the best views of Santa Barbara can be seen from the balcony of the McKinley Elementary School library.

Ryan Hollingsworth and Kara Brown, the entrepreneurship program coordinator for the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme, prepare Wednesday for an upcoming youth entrepreneurship competition.

The wife of a man who was gunned down on Christmas Eve two years ago testified Wednesday in the murder trial of Alex Compian, the man accused of pulling the trigger.

A report released Wednesday by the Ventura County Grand Jury detailing conditions of local jails and holding cells found they all met minimum state standards, but the panel also recommended some improvements.

There is still time to enjoy a full Southern California summer garden by planting heat-happy vegetables in June.

Academy Recruit Coordinator Scott Van Tassell and Sgt. John McGraw, both of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office, talk to people at a job fair last week at the Crowne Plaza Ventura Beach Hotel.

A 4.0 earthquake centered in the Pacific Ocean about 30 miles southwest of Malibu surprised some near Downtown Los Angeles Tuesday night.

A magnitude-4.7 earthquake has rattled the quake-weary New Zealand city of Christchurch.