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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…

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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…

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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…

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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 …

Oxnard city leaders are angling to let the federal government take over management of wetlands and other sensitive habitat around Ormond Beach.

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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 …

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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.”




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.

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 …

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…

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…