Ventura County News

The C.M. Meiers Co. of Woodland Hills, Calif., and Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of Los Angeles have teamed up to donate more than $33,000 to the Ventura County Fire Department for the purchase of mobile communications equipment that will make information available to the public and media during emergencies. Click on the news link for further details...

No heroic measures. The words may mean no ventilators and no resuscitation to terminally ill people who plug the phrase into advance directives dictating how they want to die.

Ventura hillside residents have filed a lawsuit to stop construction of a clinic they claim is being sprung on the community without adequate notice and environmental review.

Chuck Kirman / Star staff Runners in the Peace and Dignity Journey to Panama pass through Ventura on Wednesday.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled to continue today in Ventura County Superior Court for two people accused of plotting to kill a Ventura County prosecutor more than three years ago for a payment of $50,000 to ...

The Ventura County Community College District will pay the County of Ventura nearly $370,000 in traffic fees in exchange for the county's settlement of a four-year-old lawsuit against the district. Read the news link for further details...

Playing soccer and basketball with friends and in sports leagues kept 15-year-old Lester Turcios on the go. The Westlake High School freshman was on the go May 2, heading to Conejo Valley Days with his father, sister and brother, when a freeway collision shattered their lives. Lester died the next day. Read more at the news story link...

Ventura County farmworkers getting hammered by the current economy attended this year's Farmworker Fair in record numbers, organizers said. The third annual fair, known in Spanish as the Feria Campesina, drew 800 participants Sunday to the West Oxnard Job and Career Center. Last year, 600 attended, and 500 the year before, said Mary Navarro-Aldana, the center's work force services manager. "It's the economy. They need the services," she said. Read more details at the news story link...

More than 68,000 pot plants have been found in two marijuana gardens hidden in the Los Padres National Forest. For further details, click on the news link...

The summertime blues won't be getting Ventura County down anytime soon, according to industry representatives who say the tourist trade here is still thriving during a season defined by poor economics and the high cost of travel. Read more...

The Ventura County Medical Examiner's Office released an autopsy report this week that says a 37-year-old Ventura man died from cardiac arrhythmia while in county jail on May 1. Joel S. Wood had "severe fatty ...

Jury selection began Tuesday afternoon in the trial of a former Oxnard police officer who allegedly armed and barricaded himself in his Ventura home for about five hours last year. Police have said that Robert Perez used a firearm to keep his then-girlfriend, Denise Shadinger, also an Oxnard police officer, from leaving. Read more at the link for further details...

The county of Ventura will spend about $2 million to repave portions of the Camarillo and Oxnard airports and cover a potentially dangerous drainage ditch at the Oxnard Airport. Three separate contracts for work at the airports will go before the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. They are on the board's consent agenda, which means they are scheduled to be approved without debate. Read more at the link for further details...

Ventura County firefighters today are battling a one-acre fire near Wheeler Canyon Road east of Ventura.

In response to increasing fire danger, Forest Service officials announced July 15 they will impose additional fire restrictions in Los Padres National Forest beginning Friday, July 18.

A mudslide near an area scarred by fire poured into this small town near the southern end of the Sequoia National Forest, shortly after officials urged people to evacuate low-lying areas.

Residents and relatives of some of the 10 people killed in the La Conchita landslide have dropped the county of Ventura from their wrongful death lawsuit.

The Ventura County Fire Department has received more than $33,000 in grants to buy mobile communication equipment, which will allow it to quickly alert residents of road closures, evacuations and other dangers ...

A man was stabbed to death and another was injured after a fight broke out at a party in Camarillo early Sunday morning.

Two men robbed a man and a woman at gunpoint Sunday morning near Marina Park in Ventura, according to police.