Ventura County, CA

A car crashed through a liquor store in downtown Ventura on Friday night and the vehicle's occupants abruptly fled the glass shattered scene, police said. Clark's Liquor was occupied shortly before midnight when the vehicle plowed through the glass front, but no one inside was injured, the city's fire battalion chief Lou Manzano reported. ...

05.21.2022 | 3:40 AM | MALIBU – Ventura County Sheriff deputies surveilling the coast reported an inbound panga boat. The boat landed at Thornhill Broome Beach with 17 migrants who were eventually rounded up by deputies on the beach after several of the migrants attempted to flee on foot.

A Ventura County judge has ordered a Port Hueneme murder defendant to stand trial in connection with a fatal shooting that happened on the 4th of July almost 5 years ago. The ruling came after a three-day preliminary hearing for 22-year-old Luis Antonio Gonzales of Port Hueneme. Gonzales was 17-years-old...

Something remarkable is about to happen at Gateway Community School in Camarillo, which serves students who have faced a rocky road on their high school journey. Some have been expelled from their regular high schools, and others have had run-ins with the law. All of them have faced significant hurdles as they work toward earning their high school diplomas. Typically, several of the students in Gateway’s senior class fail to meet the requirements for graduation. But this...

Here's a roundup of recent incidents and announcements from Ventura County agencies: Body found near Lake Casitas VENTURA COUNTY — Authorities investigated the discovery of a body early Thursday along a remote stretch of Highway 150 as it curves behind Lake Casitas. ...

May 18, 2022 – Ventura County, Ca. Obviously unaware of the eternal verity of the adage “third time’s the charm,” Oxnard residents Ryan Taylor and Brooke Scheer appear to suffer from a compulsion to push their luck. According to Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Deputy Brett...

May 12, 2022 – Ventura County, Ca. Perhaps working on the philosophy of “go big or go home” often espoused by Ventura’s local community of surfers, when it comes to the retail sales of illicit narcotics, 39-year-old Albert Eklund was no small-timer. His May 11 th...

We have a spooky unnatural phenomenon here in Ventura — an invisible supply of water that the civic powers can barter with, even in its ghostly immaterial form. That’s what our City Council has just negotiated with a municipality not too far away. We will lease a partial allotment of our state water supply, which does not actually exist, to San Gorgonio, so we do not have to pay full price for a yearly promise of water,...

A & B trying to eliminate industry In the early 1920s when oil and gas wells were first being drilled in Ventura County, a primary regulatory concern was water encroachment into the oil zones. In the 100 years since, the engineering and regulation has evolved. Problems that developed were solved. Water protections are built into the existing current state rules that all new wells must comply with. ...

When it came to naming their settlements, the founders of Ventura County’s villages were largely deferential to the region’s native American heritage and agricultural roots. Chumash words gave us “Simi,” “Ojai” and “Hueneme.” Oxnard was named for beet-processing brothers. Camarillo for a ranching family. In the Conejo Valley, apparently, they just counted trees. No one thought to call attention to perhaps the region’s most prominent feature, its 42 miles of Pacific coastline. That was conceded to other...

A 43-year-old man died in his jail cell Wednesday afternoon, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. The man, identified as Seth Paul Dees, was said to be suffering a medical emergency at 12:48 p.m. in the main jail, also called the Pre-Trial Detention Facility, at 800 S. Victoria Ave. Dees was from Camarillo, authorities said. Deputies provided...

Rick MacLennan, the former president of North Idaho College, has been selected to serve as chancellor of the Ventura County Community College District in southern California. The college district’s trustees will vote on MacLennan's contract at their June 14 board meeting. “It is a privilege to become a part...

May 11, 2022 – Ventura County, Ca. As if working the counter as a cashier at any 7-11 convenience store isn’t stressful enough, when customers are brazen enough to walk behind into an “employees only” area to steal the employee’s wallet, it feels like a new low point of criminal activity.

A new chancellor has been picked for a college district serving more than 30,000 students on the South Coast. After a months-long selection process, Ventura County Community College District trustees picked Rick MacLennan to be the district’s new chancellor. He has more than 30 years experience in higher education.

The unemployment rate on the Central and South Coast has dropped to pre-pandemic levels. The latest State Employment Development Department numbers show Ventura County’s jobless rate went from 3.5% in March, to an even 3% in April. Santa Barbara County had an even bigger drop, going from 3.6% to...

Nasarenko is dedicated leader I am supporting Erik Nasarenko for Ventura County District Attorney. Erik is a dedicated leader and a professional and accomplished prosecutor. I know from personal experience that he cares deeply about public service and is committed to using his position of leadership to keep Ventura County safe. Erik and I...

The latest drought monitor released by the United States government Thursday now shows virtually all of Ventura County is now considered to be under "extreme" drought conditions. There is only one level of drought more severe and that's "exceptional". But Ventura County is not alone in California. A huge swath...

After two years of drive-thru or on-line ceremonies due to the pandemic, Moorpark College, Oxnard College, Ventura College and Ventura College East Campus in Santa Paula celebrated in person with the 5286 students in the class of 2022 on Thursday. For many of those graduating, it’s been a particularly challenging...

An investigation is underway into the death of an inmate at the Ventura County main jail in Ventura. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office says that shortly before 1 PM Wednesday, deputies at the Pretrial Detention Facility in Ventura contacted 43-year-old Seth Dees of Camarillo who appeared to be suffering from a medical emergency inside his cell.