Ventura County News

Three suspects arrested in May for allegedly stealing brass valves from irrigation pipes and copper wire from Ventura County farms are facing additional felony charges, sheriff's officials said Monday.

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As the Gap fire continued to threaten Goleta on Saturday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited the Santa Barbara area for a briefing on the blaze, which had grown to 8,694 acres by Saturday night.

Port Hueneme police made an arrest on Monday in connection with the 17-day-old killing of an Oxnard man.

The Ventura County Sheriff's Department's bomb squad this weekend destroyed a pipe bomb that was found behind an old Home Depot store in Thousand Oaks, authorities said.

California - Ventura County Fire Department responded to the 4100 block of Gurtrude Street in Simi Valley, CA on June 27th.

A wildfire threatening homes near the San Marcos Pass in the Los Padres National Forest doubled in size overnight, authorities said.

One person is dead and another is rushed to the hospital after a train slammed into vehicle Thursday afternoon in Ventura.

A silent switch of sales tax revenue from Livermore to Fillmore, a small town in Ventura County, has left a $2 million annual shortfall for Livermore to make up in its city budget.

A fire has reached as close as 2 miles to populated areas of Goleta today after burning through 200 to 300 acres in Los Padres National Forest since Tuesday evening, authorities said.

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A single-engine plane crashed Wednesday afternoon in Ventura County, killing at least one person, officials said.

Narcotics detectives arrested a 75-year-old woman known as "Grandma" Wednesday on suspicion of selling illegal drugs from her home in Nyeland Acres, northeast of Oxnard, authorities said.

Fireworks hot lines The Oxnard and Simi Valley police departments have set up hot lines residents can call to report fireworks problems and illegal fireworks displays.

Antonio Navarrete pleaded guilty Wednesday in Ventura County Superior Court to murdering 19-year-old Vincent Martinez of Oxnard, a killing prosecutors say was gang-related. "They knew each other," said Senior ...

A small plane has crashed near Piru, killing one person on board. The plane went down in a ravine near Guiberson Road and Torrey Road, around 1 p.m., according to the Ventura County Fire Department.

Fire officials say a single-engine plane has crashed into a hillside orchard near the town of Piru in Ventura County, killing one person.

Santa Barbara County officials proclaimed a local state of emergency, hoping it will bring more resources to help battle a 1,200-acre wildfire that's threatening homes in the Los Padres National Forest and has ...

Kern County's new "211" call center is helping get information to worried residents living near the Piute Fire. "211 Kern County" has been running since last October -- this is their first response to a big, local disaster. Read more...

SAN DIEGO -- Crews found two burned bodies in a gutted house, authorities said Thursday, and flames drew perilously close to thousands of homes in Southern California's firestorm despite a break in the harsh a break in the harsh winds and a massive aerial assault. Read more...