Port Hueneme News

A fresh and powerful new voice on the contemporary jazz scene, Cheryl Barnes - whose new full-length album Listen To This is scoring airplay everywhere from KCRW in Los Angeles to WNVW in Cleveland - will be sharing a "Hot Night of Cool Jazz" with renowned R&B/Jazz singer Johnny Britt on Saturday, August 16 in Port Hueneme, Calif.

Officials at the Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme are working to contain the spread of swine flue and pneumonia among unaccompanied alien children brought there in recent days, according to a report in the Washington Free Beacon.

Ventura Star file photo Adrian Calleja and his sister Adriana Diego, of Oxnard, stand in support of the immigrant children who are being sheltered at Naval Base Ventura County on Tuesday..

A Port Hueneme shelter that's housing hundreds of unaccompanied children who have illegally crossed the Southwest border is operating near or at capacity, visitors say.

Karla Salazar, right, and Ellen Leonard on Tuesday joined nearly 100 demonstrators at the naval base in Port Hueneme, where hundreds of immigrant children are being housed.

As the border crisis continues, the Department of Defense is requesting that additional military bases make housing facilities and land available to accommodate a continued influx of illegal alien children.

Adrian Calleja and his sister Adriana Diego, of Oxnard, stand in support of the immigrant children who are being sheltered at a naval base in Port Hueneme, Calif., outside the base Tursday, July 8, 2014.

Adrian Calleja and his sister Adriana Diego, of Oxnard, stand in support of the immigrant children who are being sheltered at a naval base in Port Hueneme, Calif., outside the base Tursday, July 8, 2014.

Protester Darlene Mosser sits outside the Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme on Tuesday, when religious, community and legislative leaders toured the facility holding hundreds of unaccompanied minor detainees.

KCAL9's Jeff Nguyen reports dozens of people rallied Tuesday outside the Port Hueneme Naval Base, where 575 undocumented immigrants ages 13-17 have been detained since last month.

California lawmakers and religious leaders say they are pleased with the conditions of a temporary shelter in Ventura County for children caught crossing the border but, they're worried about the young immigrants' future.

Given the millions of dollars the port has spent to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, the potential for increased competition from ports on the East Coast and Gulf Coast via a widened Panama Canal and the changes that technology have wrought, it's smart for the Oxnard Harbor District and the Port of Hueneme to figure out if there is a better way ... (more)

Opening LOVE Organic Spa, Salon and Yoga opened at 2944-E. Tapo Canyon Road, offering skin, hair and body care as well as yoga classes.

Over the last few weeks, there has been somewhat of a panic over the recent relocation of Central American immigrant children to Naval Base Port Hueneme.

Commissioners of the Oxnard Harbor District who oversee the Port of Hueneme voted unanimously Monday in favor of a resolution that would cut certain payments it's been making to the city of Port Hueneme for nearly 30 years.