Ventura County News

The Ventura County Star says an animal control officer was sent to a home in Santa Paula Tuesday after a report came in that several dogs were fighting in the backyard.

Photo by Theresa Goldstrand / NAWCWD From left, David Wu, Bradley Dwen and Mitchell Morrow, all of whom work at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division Point Mugu, judge science and engineering entries in last month's Hueneme High School annual science fair.

Ventura County entrepreneurs can attend a host of free workshops presented by the Economic Development Collaborative-Ventura County's Small Business Development Center of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.

TROY HARVEY/THE STAR Deputy Probation Officer Travis Prater pats Jose Ojeda down during a random visit to the youth's Oxnard home.

Photo courtesy NMCB 4 Ensign Brian Douglas of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 briefs other students on his company defense plan through use of his terrain model during an annual Tactical Unit Leadership Course.

In 1967-1968, Denmark native Mogen Frandsen began a pen-pal correspondence with a girl who at the time, lived in Toledo Ohio.

The Santa Paula Animal Rescue Center has taken in 16 pit bulls injured in an apparent dog-fighting ring, officials said Tuesday.

Meteorologists say the winds will rise as a trough of low pressure near Idaho drops south into eastern California, creating moderate to strong offshore flow through Thursday.

Dozens of volunteers participated in Make A Difference Day on Saturday at the Free Clinic of Simi Valley's dental facility.

A state board has turned down Sheriff Geoff Dean's request for a $41 million grant for expansion of the Todd Road Jail near Santa Paula.

The Ventura County Transportation Commission has filed an eviction lawsuit against the Fillmore & Western Railway, which has not heeded the agency's demand to stop running its historical, tourist-oriented trains.

Gusting winds and low humidity will combine to create an elevated threat of wildfires in much of Los Angeles County this week, with the most severe conditions expected Wednesday, forecasters said today.

ROB VARELA/THE STAR Some water remains at McGrath State Beach campground Monday.

Forty more images of Ventura County's fallen Vietnam War veterans are being sought for an online memorial and permanent exhibit in Washington, D.C. We're sorry.

During the calls, scammers use a variety of stories to get victims to wire money to a specific location, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.

Dry and hot weather are expected in Ventura County this week as Santa Ana winds return to the region, according to the National Weather Service .

One person was transported to St. John's Pleasant Valley Hospital Sunday afternoon following a traffic collision at Los Pueblos Drive and Santa Rosa Road in Camarillo at 1:34 p.m. Two Ventura County Fire Department units responded to the scene, but details of the accident are still unavailable.

The Natural Resources Defense Council , on behalf of itself, Heal the Bay, and Santa Monica Baykeeper, intervened in the case earlier this year after Judge Thierry Patrick Colaw ruled the water board did not follow the proper procedure when it applied water quality standards for Los Angeles and Ventura County waterways to control polluted runoff.

The next Oxnard tattoo removal clinic will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday at Las Islas Women's Clinic, 2400 South C St. Ventura County Public Health's HIV/AIDS program will offer free, confidential, anonymous HIV testing from noon to 7 p.m. Monday at its clinic at 2500 South C St. The California Lutheran University Artists and Speakers Series ... (more)

Last week, I was pleased to announce nearly $12 million in federal funds for the dredging of the Channel Islands Harbor and $10.5 million for the Ventura Harbor dredging project.