Ventura News

The Players Club in Ventura, the county's lone licensed poker room, is still awaiting approval from the state Gambling Control Commission to expand to 18 tables.

At 100, Dorcas Jones still lives alone and prepares her own meals. Courtesy photo Ann Shields, left, is seen with Dorcas Jones of Ventura.

A local environmental group has taken the first step in filing a lawsuit against the city of Ventura, claiming it does not adequately treat the effluent it dumps into the Santa Clara River estuary.

From long-awaited repaving on Poli Street to repairs along the Ventura Promenade, Ventura city officials have several improvement projects in the works for this year.

A motor home was destroyed by fire Monday night in Ventura, authorities said. Ventura city firefighters responded at 10:50 p.m. to the motor home fire behind Tony's Pizzeria, 186 Thompson Blvd.

Once almost impossible to locate, seasonal flu vaccine isn't exactly abundant in Ventura County but it can be found.

A jury on Monday found a Ventura man guilty of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman who was asleep in the bedroom of a friend's home in 2004.

Carmen Smyth/ Special to the Star/ Ventura author and historian, Glenda Jackson signs a copy of her newly published book, "Ventura: Then and Now for Jan Hunter at the Dudley house, one of the featured historic sites included the book.

Gary Hensley, a visually impaired carver from Ventura, made a cane for Army Capt.

Police and Fire: A Ventura man was arrested late Sunday night after he allegedly showed up at the home of his estranged wife, threatened a friend of hers with a gun and held a knife to her neck, police said.

Rob Varela / Star staff Ventura Police Department Chief Pat Miller, left, who is retiring, chats with former VPD officer Ross Nideffer as he works his final shift on patrol Christmas day Friday.

When David Glassey of Ventura watches the Rose Parade today, he will be cheering for the man who helped save his life nearly four years ago.

What: Stress, Health and Longevity course, led by Ventura consultant Mohammed Hasan.

Water customers in Ventura have until Jan. 15 to pay without penalty their bills, which in some cases were mailed two weeks late.

"Her specialty was Italian cooking. Her best dish was chicken cacciatore," Ruth Forehand said about her mother, Mary Jaconette.

Sitting in a wheelchair inside a detention cell in a Ventura courtroom, an Oxnard man on Wednesday admitted driving drunk and causing a collision that killed two local disc jockeys returning from a charity fundraiser.

The Ventura Fire Department extinguished a fire early this morning in a large shipping container in a storage yard in the 2800 block of Beene Road, Ventura.

Gloria Breuer of Oxnard and her husband, Dale, attend for the first time the annual Parade of Lights on Friday evening at Ventura Harbor.

Bail has been set at $1 million for a Ventura man arrested early Saturday, some 10 hours after he threatened to kill a neighbor with a shotgun and then refused to surrender to police, authorities said.

It has been the Ventura Jazz Orchestras first full year of making music in Ventura.