Ventura County News

One item on the Ventura County Transportation Commission's agenda Friday is a staff recommendation to support a California constitutional amendment to lower the voter threshold to pass local transportation finance measures to 55 percent.

Falling temperatures across the Southland have local growers worried. A "hard freeze" could be devastating.

Life Systems Group has introduced a new, patent-pending product called LifeTank - designed to provide households with fresh water in the case of a disaster that interrupts water supply.

Simi Valley police on Wednesday identified the man and the longtime neighbor he shot before killing himself, but said they still don't know why he did it.

The Ventura County Transportation Commission has ushered in a new era for local transit.

A Thousand Oaks fast-food restaurant was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money late Tuesday afternoon, Ventura County sheriff's deputies reported.

A freeze warning and a frost advisory will be in effect starting midnight Thursday, but areas throughout the county are expected to form frost late Wednesday bringing in low temperatures, according to the National Weather Service.

Fitch Ratings has published a report on Ventura County, CA. The report is available at ' www.fitchratings.com '.

JOSEPH A. GARCIA/THE STAR Jim Strickland , helping out as substitute conductor for the Ventura County Concert Band, goes over musical arrangements with timpanist Lavonne Theriault during a rehearsal at Buena High School.

Toys"R"Us has agreed to pay nearly $180,000 to settle a consumer protection lawsuit alleging that the retailer overcharged customers in Los Angeles and San Diego counties.

Midfielder Rodrigo Lopez is the first of two players to be signed by the Republic this week, according to the team website.

Northbound Highway 101 in western Ventura County was shut down for several hours early Tuesday after a man plunged to his death from a freeway overpass, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Members of the Simi Valley Police Department conduct an investigation into the discovery of two dead bodies found in the front yard of a house in the 3300 block of Billie Court in Simi Valley on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013.

A man was taken to St. John's Regional Medical Center in Oxnard after being struck by a truck near the intersection of Simon Way and Vineyard Avenue in Oxnard, officials said.

About seven people were turned away Sunday night at the West Ventura County Winter Warming Shelter when it opened for its three-month run.

The Ventura County and Oxnard fire departments responded with paddleboards and jet skies and were able to pull the body out of the water, said Capt.

The official canvass shows Republican Susan Shelley lost to Democrat Matt Dababneh by 329 votes.

By Arin Mikailian A woman from Encino who was suspected of assault with a deadly weapon was arrested on the 118 Freeway in Porter Ranch on Tuesday, CBS2 reports.

Retailers got Americans into stores during the start to the holiday shopping season.

Deputies tried to make a traffic stop on Highway 118 near the western part of Moorpark about 1: 25 a.m., said the Ventura County Sheriff's Office.