At a trade show last January, Goodyear displayed an amazing new tire touted as “sustainable.” It is made primarily of soybean oil, rice husks and pine resin. These items meet the “renewable” standard because they can be grown, unlike petroleum, which comes out of the earth only once. More sp…
News In Brief: Week of May 25, 2023
The Casitas Water Adventure water park plays an important role at Lake Casitas Recreation Area since body contact with the reservoir is prohibited. Temperatures often top 100 degrees during Ojai Valley summers and the popular attraction offer…
Being named Ventura County Teacher of the Year is one of the biggest honors local educators can ever hope to receive. Every year, a group of top education officials from the Ventura County Office of Education (VCOE) sneak onto the winning tea…
It’s been 50 years since the first deployment of an innovative wildfire fighting system used in conjunction by the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Air Force. Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems, or MAFFS, are devices that slide in and out …
Lynna Nguyen is getting serious about saving the environment with help from a Ventura charity bringing unique learning opportunities to local schools.
Oxnard city leaders are angling to let the federal government take over management of wetlands and other sensitive habitat around Ormond Beach.
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!
X Games coming to Ventura
It is tacky to leave a price tag on a Mother’s Day gift, but some other kinds of tags or labels are useful. A store label might enable a return and refund.
Captain Greg Gibson with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office (VCSO) was working as a watch commander overseeing operations countywide when he got a call about a plane down in a remote area in the hills east of Moorpark. A mountain bike rider …
In the Oxnard Costco parking lot last month, I saw someone open his car door, drop a cigarette on the ground, and stomp it out while exiting. As he walked away, I said, “Oh, you dropped your cigarette.”
Traditions are an important part of the Ojai Tennis Tournament which dates all the way back to the 1890s. Volunteers in fancy dresses still serve hot tea and cookies on fine china to guests and players, including top collegiate athletes from …
Robert Dahl is the owner of seven small theme parks in his native Germany but has a soft spot for Oxnard.
AS-Built Construction founders Bryan Arthur and Matthew Spencer will ably guide clients through any type of building project, from residential to industrial, new builds to remodels, full-scale design and construction to consultation for do-it…
A Jacuzzi hot tub sits in a fenced-off section of a parking lot at the Ventura County Government Center. Next to it, in a locked storage container, is an inflatable Zodiac raft.
April 18 had been a normal school day for Westlake High School freshman Jackie O’Brien when the unthinkable happened.
It is bad enough to get stuck behind a slow truck on the long, one-lane sections of Highway 118. But far worse is when a fast truck without proper mud flaps, or sometimes just any vehicle with large tires, kicks up a rock and sends it into yo…
Fighting wildfires on the Channel Islands poses unique challenges for firefighters and officials tasked with protecting cultural and ecological resources at Channel Islands National Park. A newly revised Channel Islands National Park Fire Man…
“California government is regulating the color of my trash cans; in times like the present, we should really focus on trash can colors.” That was a sarcastic posting on a neighborhood-based social media platform in Ventura last week.
CSUCI aims for carbon neutral by 2040
The criminal threats committed against the Conejo Valley Unified School District and its superintendent last year didn’t happen in a vacuum, according to prosecutors and district officials.
The campus of California State University Channel Islands will soon be home to threatened and endangered local wildlife including western snowy plovers, California red-legged frogs and California condors.
Since this year’s Earth Day, April 22, is on a Saturday, most events are held on the official day of commemoration. However, as usual, events all this month will celebrate Earth Day.
The drive to create a new Ventura County government seal was a controversial affair due to the removal of San Buenaventura Mission founder Junipero Serra, but one thing everyone could agree on was the quality of the entries submitted for the …
Atticus Reyes knew that Ojai Unified School District faced numerous challenges when he decided to run for the board of trustees last November, but he had no idea about the magnitude of the issues before he won election.
People who enjoy visiting the Los Padres National Forest were happy to hear about the recent lifting of a special closure order that affected four of the five ranger districts including Ojai and Santa Barbara. The highly unusual order went in…
With recent rains and cold weather, it may feel like winter, but spring officially started last week. Are you ready for spring cleaning?
National Park Service officials have awarded a new 10-year contract to Island Packers to provide transportation services to Channel Islands National Park (CINP). The company founded in 1968 currently uses four boats sailing from Ventura and C…
In an area so eager for water most of the year, why do we let our rare rainfall flow into the ocean?
