Ventura County News

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.

The Ventura County Sheriff's Office, Fillmore Police Department, arrested Ruben Estrada for two counts of assault with a deadly weapon, hit and run, and driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

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.

A service for firefighter Mike Herdman, whose body was found in Los Padres Forest in Ventura County after a two-week search, will be held in Arcadia today.

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.

Business magnate Donald Trump is fighting - not over an investment - but to keep the Stars and Stripes flying from a 70-foot flagpole at his Southland Trump National Golf Course.

Over 100 pro-amnesty activists from Southern California traveled to Naval Base Ventura County on Tuesday to stage a demonstration outside the gates to demand "humane treatment" for illegal aliens who have been transferred there from Texas by U.S. Border Patrol.

After touring a federally run shelter for 575 teens at a naval base in Port Hueneme, members of the state's Latino legislative caucus and religious leaders said the children from 13 to 17 years old appeared happy.

Demonstrators and counter demonstrators picket on Tuesday, July 8, 2014 to raise issues around migrant children who are being temporarily housed at Naval Base Ventura County.

Note, by the way, that judging from the aforementioned Fallen quote Mr. Atkins apparently sees himself as a demon.

Continued operation of an underground pipeline that has been flowing crude oil through Santa Monica for nearly 75 years will be before the City Council on Tuesday.

South Pasadena Firefighters collected donations for the daughter of Arcadia Firefighter Paramedic Mike Herdman on Monday.

A man who was challenging people to fight while driving down a Fillmore street was arrested Friday after allegedly hitting a deputy with his truck and narrowly avoiding a crash with a responding patrol vehicle.

Robert Garcia scored in the 95th minute as the Fresno Fuego pulled out a 1-0 road win against the Southern California Seahorses on Saturday night.

Cars back up on a stretch of State Route 18 after rockslide blocked the road in the southern California community of Snow Valley, enroute to Big Bear Lake on Saturday, July 5, 2014.

Fire officials in Ventura County weren't taking any chances Friday after dozens of people were injured during a chain reaction of accidental explosions a year ago at a Fourth of July firework show in Simi Valley.

The streets of Ventura's historic Downtown and Westside Cultural District will transform into a mecca of artistic expression for the 21st ArtWalk Ventura event the weekend of July 19-20.

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)

As Hurricane Arthur bears down on the east coast, and the Canadian Prairies deal with heavy rains and flooding, California faces a different problem.