Fatal drug overdoses increased modestly in 2025, reversing a recent downward trend but remaining well below peak levels seen earlier in the decade, according to a new report from the Ventura County ...

A large group of supporters gathered at Ventura County Superior Court under rainy skies Tuesday morning, demanding justice for 18-year-old Makayla Settles, who died by suicide last year following an ...

(Note: A statement was added to the story on April 17 from the District Attorney’s Office regarding the matter.) A Moorpark electrician accused of sexually assaulting his teenage daughter before she ...

Moorpark is growing, safer and embracing new technology, city leaders said at the April 7 State of the City at the High Street Arts Center, highlighting everything from business openings and housing ...

EASTER FUN—Clockwise from above: Kids scramble to pick up Easter eggs during the City of Moorpark’s annual Easter Egg Hunt April 4 at Arroyo Vista Community Park in Moorpark. Nathaniel Drenth helps ...

A black plastic bag, tied shut and slumped inside a bin of castoffs at a Goodwill Outlet in Oxnard, sat among the usual jumble—papers, envelopes, fragments of other people’s lives sold by the pound.

Ventura County has an important opportunity before it: the development of the Lewis Road Mental Health Rehabilitation Center, a 38-bed, 22,000-squarefoot facility that will expand access to critical ...

April 1 At Moorpark Avenue and 2nd Street, a man, 67, was cited for operating a motor vehicle upon a public roadway while his driving privilege was suspended due to a DUI conviction. A 57-year-old man ...

As the local temperatures pushed toward 90 degrees on March 21, residents of the Westlake Pointe neighborhood in Westlake Village spent the day clearing brush, hauling debris, and reinforcing their ...

A Fillmore woman was arrested last week in connection with a package theft after doorbell and community surveillance cameras helped investigators track her down. Rebecca Fendrick was taken into ...

A crack of gunfire lasted less than two seconds. Its echo, 45 years later, still shapes how a nation remembers a president, a near tragedy—and the ordinary people who refused to let history turn. At ...

Ventura County elections officials are advising voters to keep an eye on their mailboxes, as the county will soon begin sending election-related material ahead of the June 2 primary. The first mailing ...