Oxnard News

GARRETT COMBS/SPECIAL TO THE STAR Oxnard Mayor Tim Flynn and Port Hueneme Mayor Jonathan Sharkey present an award for public safety to Port Hueneme Officer Josemelito Valles during Monday's ceremony.

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing Tuesday to consider raising rents and fees at the county's airports in Oxnard and Camarillo in fiscal year 2014-15.

A day after a fire gutted parts of an Oxnard medical plaza, doctors, dentists and firefighters hauled out paper records, scorched computers and medical equipment Monday.

Authorities said police found a 25-year-old man had been stabbed several times when they arrived in the 1800 block of Pericles Place about 5:45 p.m. Witnesses told police the men asked for the victim by name and that a struggle followed, leaving the man with stab wounds.

He thinks about it before going to sleep. He has dreams about it, and it's the first thing on his mind when he wakes up.

The first total eclipse of 2014 is poised to show itself Monday night in the form of a dark red "blood moon."

For the second year, the Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project, an Oxnard-based nonprofit group serving the Mixteco community, is offering scholarships for college-bound students.

The Oxnard City Fire Department along with the Ventura County Fire Department responded to a medical building on fire about 10:55 a.m. near Lantana Street and West Gonzales Road, officials said.

JUAN CARLO/THE STAR Ashlynn Henderson, of Simi Valley, works on making a macaroni necklace during Cottontail Day on Saturday on the Ventura Harbor Village main lawn.

Casa Pacifica was honored at a gala presented by the Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children on March 29 at the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard.

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Oxnard police were looking for a man Friday night who is said to have entered an insurance office wearing a ski mask, pointed a silver-colored handgun and demanded property.

Customers hauling trash to Oxnard's Del Norte Regional Recycling and Transfer Station can now pay disposal fees with a credit card.

ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE STAR Susan Mulligan and Steve Blois, of Calleguas Municipal Water District, address the Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency board, during a meeting Feb. 26 to discuss proposed pumping cutbacks.

An Oxnard woman accused of hitting and killing a popular Ventura educator while he was jogging pleaded not guilty Friday to vehicular manslaughter.

An Oxnard High School student was among those injured in a fiery bus crash Thursday in Northern California, The Sacramento Bee is reporting.

Good things do come in small packages. The first taste of singer-songwriter Max Kasch's enormous musical talent comes to us in a wee three-song teaser that packs a mighty punch.

STEPHANIE HOOPS/THE STAR Tax payers wait in line to pay at the Ventura County Government Center.

Ventura County sheriff's deputies were asking for the public's help Thursday finding an Oxnard man alleged to have been operating a stolen vehicle "chop shop" in El Rio.

The bankruptcy judge handling Gold's Gym of Oxnard's Chapter 11 reorganization on Wednesday granted a Ventura County District Attorney's Office request to appoint a trustee to oversee business operations after finding "abysmal business behavior" and "gross mismanagement" at the gym.