Ventura County News

Remember all those stories about a new bowling center being planned for Janss Marketplace in the east Ventura County city of Thousand Oaks? The last flurry of stories reported that there was hope that the facility could be open by early next year.

The Ventura County Transportation Commission awarded a nine-year contract to Camarillo-based Roadrunner Management Services for the operation of its popular inter-city bus service.

Ralph Fernandez, an incumbent councilman, and John Demers, who serves on the Planning Commission, respectively took out nomination papers Thursday and Friday, said Deputy City Clerk Lucy Blanco.

Thrin Short, 16, of Ventura County, Calif., told FoxNews.com she was pushed at least three times by associate professor Mireille Miller-Young during a March 4 anti-abortion outreach event at the University of California in Santa Barbara.

The Porterville-based parent company of Bank of the Sierra said July 17 that it is purchasing Santa Paula-based Santa Clara Valley Bank in an all-cash deal that includes three branches and $105 million in deposits.

The pipeline is located near the city's eastern border with Los Angeles, according to the Mirror.

Children at the White House earlier this month protest President Obama's response to the immigration crisis.

The following story was reported by Capital and Main and published here in collaboration with The Huffington Post.

Brussels is a city of many contrasts. The United Nations calls Brussels home, and so do countless vagabonds and world travelers.

At the age of 10, I became a self-elected member of the anti-smoking campaign in my house.

No protests. No children in the schools. No effect on city services. Two children with pneumonia treated at a local hospital and paid for by the federal government.

Will the City of Fillmore continue to attract tourism to town without the Fillmore and Western Train is a question many Fillmore residents are asking.

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.

The Citrus Classic Balloon Festival is known as such a great showcase for the area that the woman who created it was honored as Santa Paula's Citizen of the Year.

A sheriff's statement says someone in a rented pontoon boat on Cachuma Lake saw what appeared to be a body Monday and called 911.

The Ventura County Star reported that the Sunday morning explosion happened inside the Ortiz Bakery, blowing out the store's windows and injuring one of two people inside the business.

IRWINDALE >> Parked outside the Sriracha factory Friday morning below the U.S. and California flags were the two newest, bright-red additions to the hot sauce plant on Azusa Canyon Road - mini tour buses.

Classics in the Park, which has been mounting summer performances of classic plays in Ventura County for more than two decades, will perform Georges Feydeau 's riotous bedroom farce, The Lady From Maxim's, August 9 through 17, at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts in Thousand Oaks.

DEAN SHIELS insists Rangers' stint Stateside has proven worthwhile so far despite the Light Blues shock friendly defeat this week.

Deputies have arrested three suspects who are allegedly involved in the kidnapping and beating of a Camarillo man that occurred in May, officials said Friday.