Ventura County News

CARLOS CHAVEZ/SPECIAl TO THE STAR Angelica Carranza , Alishya Ayala and Jessica Jacuinde create a watershed model during a workshop at Saturday's Brighter Horizons conference at California Lutheran University.

ROB VARELA/THE STAR File photo: Most of the Fox Canyon aquifer is deep underground - nearly 2,000 feet, in some places - but you can see what it looks like on a stretch of Highway 23 outside Fillmore, where it bends up and is exposed along the roadway.

JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR Heather Myhre and other participants join in reminding Oxnard residents they need to protect the youths of Oxnard and Ventura County during the Stop Human Trafficking community awareness walk Thursday.

The stage is set for a possible encore of a congressional campaign that established a spending record in Ventura County two years ago, as candidate-filing closed Friday in the hypercompetitive 26th Congressional District.

Barry Fisher was named director of the Ventura County Health Care Agency, which ranks as the county's largest arm, late Friday afternoon.

The son of Ventura County Supervisor Peter Foy was sentenced to six years in prison on charges involving transportation of drugs, money laundering and failure to file income tax.

A 23-year-old man and an unidentified male juvenile are in jail Friday after stealing about $3,000 worth of property from an Oxnard home, police said.

Oxnard Police were dispatched to the 100 block of South C Street just after 5:30 p.m. six weeks ago.

Bullet is one of Ventura County Animal Services' greatest dogs in need. He's been at the shelter since Nov. 30, and shelter staff members worry the environA ment is starting to wear on him.

Work is underway on a bicycle lane project on Pleasant Valley Road between Oxnard and Camarillo, officials with the Ventura County Public Works Agency said Thursday.

A man wearing earphones who danced on a power pole while ignoring pleas from police in Southern California has been lifted to safety.

Sam Giovinazzi, with the California Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, assists Lance Cpl.

Although Edgar Munoz enjoyed his family's Mexican cuisine while growing up in Southern California, he initially decided that a business management degree from Pepperdine would lead him to his career path.

"None of the victims did anything wrong except being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There will be a members-only workshop Wednesday about creating a portrait using raw-edge appliquA©.

A 42-year-old man was arrested in Camarillo early Thursday after allegedly crashing into a parked car with two people inside, officials said.

Ventura County sheriff's deputies responded to the scene around 11 a.m. after receiving a call about a man armed with a black semi-automatic handgun.

Kerry Records presents An Irish Hooley with the Irish band Slugger O'Toole in celebration of St. Patrick's Day.

Politics are getting in the way of solving the most critical and urgent challenges facing Ventura County agriculture, and if solutions aren't found soon, more of the industry will move south of the border than it has already.

Along the Pacific coast of Ventura County, local officials are pleased by this week's news about the prospect of federal funding for dredging that is essential to keep Ventura Harbor and Channel Islands Harbor operating normally and reverse the alarming shoreline erosion in Port Hueneme.