Ventura County News

On Thursday night at approximately 9:15 a fire broke out in one of the stables at the S.B. Polo Club, which is actually located in Carpinteria near Padaro Lane.

Seashore Porcelain Artists and guests will meet at 9:30 a.m. Friday in the Camarillo Evangelical Free Church, 2315 Ventura Blvd.

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

A drum circle is planned for 1:30 p.m., followed at 2 p.m. by a gourd hat parade.

A Ventura County Sheriff's helicopter douses flames above Highway 23 on Grimes Canyon, Wednesday.

Passion: it's the word keeps cropping up when students, fellow teachers and administrators talk about the 2012 Ventura County Teacher of the Year - Sebastien De Clerck, who teaches Italian and French at Ventura High School.

Memorial Day weekend DUI arrests are up by three in Ventura County compared with last year.

T he United States of America , where all men are created equal, is also where women have often been ignored and left behind.

It's sheer pleasure watching Linda Livingston onstage - not just because she's a fine actress, though she is - but because after six years of intermittent productions at various locations across Ventura County, her formerly itinerant Transport Theatre finally has a home.

Youngsters taking part in the Child and Youth Programs after-school sessions at Catalina Heights, the base housing complex in Camarillo, begin their May 17 run in recognition of Armed Forces Day.

The Ventura County Sheriff's Department released the following statement regarding a burglary that took place on May 25 along the 2600 block of Marvella Court: On May 25, at about 2:25 PM, enraged suspect Jae Lee entered victim's home and demanded the residents leave.

The message from federal safety officials and worried pediatricians is alarmingly succinct.

Ventura County sheriff's officials are investigating whether the mother of a newborn baby found dead in a Nyeland Acres strawberry field this month was smuggled into the country and forced into prostitution.

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.

In the northernmost reaches of California's Ventura County, a two-lane rural road called Highway 33 runs into the rugged and mostly undeveloped Transverse Mountain Range.

A Ventura County man is jail Wednesday after being accused of molesting a family member over a ten year period.

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The ocean off Malibu was the site of two earthquakes Tuesday night, one of which was felt over a large area.

About 10:50 p.m. a Ventura Police officer saw the suspect, Duane Walczak, 26, pushing a motorcycle into a drive way of an apartment complex in the 300 block of West Ramona Street, police said.

The campaign of 19th Senate District candidate Hannah-Beth Jackson has fired the vendor it used to make political calls to voters after learning the call center's number showed up on recipients' caller IDs as coming from the National Weather Service's Oxnard office.