Ventura County News

Crews continue to build containment lines around a wildfire burning for a fourth day in the hills and mountains around Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles.

One man was arrested and two males escaped Sunday after leading authorities on a pursuit through Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, officials said.

Food - specifically strawberries - took center stage at the 30th California Strawberry Festival, where Larissa Nelson, of Fillmore, narrowly beat out the returning champion in the annual Berry Blast-off Smack-Down finals, Nelson and Winona Krieger faced off using only hot plates to create gourmet treats for a panel of five judges in the cook-off.

Erika Rosa, trauma program manager at Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center, and her son Caleb Rosa, 4, play a number-counting game on their way to school and work.

Isabelle Massey, 2, holds her mom Sarah's hand as they make their way around the California Strawberry Festival in Oxnard Saturday, May 18, 2013.

The traffic collision was reported about 10:40 a.m. at Santa Ana Boulevard and Santa Ana Road, according to the Ventura County Fire Department .

You'd be forgiven if you thought a red carpet gala involved a long red walkway, but the 2013 Ventura County Music Awards' red carpet affair is a modest red square - a mat, really, on which the people in attendance stand to have their photographs taken.

Her parents, desperate to find alternative measures for their daughter who had undergone surgeries and chemotherapy, turned to Dr.

Oxnard city officials say the search for a new city manager won't begin until later this year, but the four sitting councilmembers discussed what other steps could be taken in the meantime.

A working artist for the past 30 years, Michele Chapin, owner of Stonework Studios in Ventura, has successfully devoted herself to the local art scene, determined to bring people together through art.

A tattoo memorializes a moment, place, time or person. It can also be a symbol of reinvention and starting anew, which is exactly what the new owner of Ventura's most notorious tattoo parlor hopes to do.

A wildfire burning at the border of Kern and Ventura counties has prompted local air officials to issue a health cautionary statement for smoke impacts in the vicinity of Frazier Park in Kern County, including Lebec, Lake of the Woods and Pine Mountain Club.

CAL FIRE, USFS, KERN CO FD, VENTURA CO FD, KERN COUNTY SO, VENTURA CO SO, LA CO SO, LAFD, CALEMA, BLM, KERN CO RD DEPT., CHP, CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS CAL FIRE Incident Management Team #6 has been activated to manage the fire that is burning in state lands and adjacent to the Los Padres National Forest.

The Grand fire releases a large plume of smoke as it burns more than 3,000 acres of wildlands near Frazier Park on Wednesday, May 15, 2013.Cooler temperatures and lighter winds are helping hundreds of firefighters combat a 3,000-acre wildfire.

For the first time in four years, Ventura teachers aren't scheduled to have furlough days in an academic year, a circumstance that will lead to more classroom time for students.

Firefighters were battling a fast-moving, wind-driven wildfire that burned more than 3,000 acres in less than three hours on Wednesday afternoon, forcing evacuations and road closures in Los Padres National Forest near Frazier Park.

The Ventura County Community College District will spend up to $19,500 to see whether a move to Oxnard College makes sense.

The surge begins in October. Each month, 740 phone calls are expected to be transferred from the new California health care exchange that is a linchpin of federal health care overhaul to the Ventura County Human Services Agency.

The small group of cyclists from Hueneme High School had planned ahead of time to meet at Oxnard's Plaza Park to grab some free treats, sign up for an iPad raffle and get their bikes tuned up by Performance Bike staff members.

The Ventura County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved releasing deed restrictions on a portion of park property in south Oxnard to allow a new fire station to be built there.