Ventura County Sun

02/09/2025

Now available in print by mail: Ventura County Sun, a bureau of
The paper has three sections, Ventura County, Ojai, and Arts & Culture. Print mailed subscriptions include all online access. Subscribe to free newsletters and to our youtube channel, X, and Facebook.

02/08/2025

An 80,000-gallon sewage spill from the Oxnard Wastewater Treatment Plan near Perkins Road, which has been halted, has closed beaches at Port Hueneme Beach Park and portions of Ormond Beach at J Street, Industrial Drain, and Arnold Road, it was reported on Friday, Feb. 7.

An 80,000-gallon sewage spill from the Oxnard Wastewater Treatment Plan near Perkins Road, which has been halted, has closed beaches at Port Hueneme Beach Park and portions of Ormond Beach

02/07/2025

Moorpark students gather at the corner of Spring Street and Los Angeles Avenue with flags and signs supporting the local immigrant community.
Photos by Tommy Suwara

02/07/2025

If you are thinking of running for Ojai City Council, it is time to add two more items to your pre-campaign checklist. First, make sure your assets are in a

02/07/2025

Watch videos of this week's top stories, now live on the OVN | VCSUN YouTube channel:

Protests erupt throughout the county in support of immigrant communities, a City Council dispute results in hundreds of thousands spent in a lawsuit, storms pass for a dry weekend, arson

02/07/2025

A dispute between several Ojai City Council members that erupted in 2023 with a civil lawsuit continues to spark discord.

02/07/2025

State utility regulators on Thursday, Jan. 30, approved a settlement that will require Southern California Edison customers to foot about $1.7 billion in claims from the 2017 Thomas Fire, and the resulting 2018 Montecito debris flows that killed 23 people.
The company’s equipment, investigators previously found, caused the Dec. 4 2017 fire, which burned more than 280,000 acres in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, killing two people. Rainfall the following month led to debris flows that killed 23.

The settlement comes as Edison disputes evidence that its power lines may have ignited the Eaton fire in Los Angeles County earlier this month.

State utility regulators on Thursday, Jan. 30, approved a settlement that will require Southern California Edison customers to foot about $1.7 billion in claims from the 2017 Thomas Fire, and

02/07/2025

Los Padres Forest Association and the Wheeler Gorge Visitor Center need your help to rebuild something small — something record-holdingly small.The tiny post office at Wheeler Springs was lost in

02/07/2025

VENTURA | When “The History of Rock `n’ Roll” is written, it probably won’t be in cursive, but Cursive will surely have earned a few paragraphs. Local music fans can come up with their own adjectives when Cursive plays at the Ventura Music Hall Tuesday, Feb. 11. Pile will open.

GETTING THERE: Cursive and Pile at Ventura Music Hall, 1888 E. Thompson Blvd. WHEN: Tuesday, Feb. 11, 8 p.m. COST: $35 CALL: 805-667-8802

02/07/2025

OJAI

Kate Kilmurray’s passion is building community and connection.

02/07/2025

SIMI VALLEY | Boeing will have to a better job of preventing runoff from the cobtaminated Santa Susana Field Lab site in the Simi Valley hills.

Late last year, a Los Angeles Superior Court Judge handed down a ruling in a lawsuit brought by Boeing against the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, resulting in

02/07/2025

Inspired by student actions in recent days in Ventura County, more than 50 Nordhoff Junior High and High School students and supporters rallied after school Feb. 6 in support of

02/07/2025

THOUSAND OAKS | Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants,” will speak about cultivating a reciprocal relationship with the living world.

The free event will be at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 12, in the Samuelson Chapel on the California Lutheran University campus, 60 W. Olsen Road in Thousand Oaks. The lecture is free, but registration is requested.

Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of “Braiding Sweetgrass: Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants,” will speak about cultivating a reciprocal relationship with the living world.

02/07/2025

Valentine’s Day event in Ojai.

This Valentine’s Day, the nonprofit Educate Girls Now bridges continents and hearts with a virtual gathering of young Afghan girls who dare to dream in the face of adversity. Join

02/07/2025

On the heels of a pair of slow-moving Pineapple Express storms this week, a dry weekend is forecast in Ojai with another, potentially stronger storm expected next week.

02/07/2025

The first-ever Mothers Sanctuary takes place at Soule Park, at 801 Boardman Road, on Saturday, Feb. 8, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There is a $5 cash-only entry fee.

02/07/2025

CAMARILLO | A woman’s body found Friday, Jan. 31, in a ravine about 150 yards off southbound Highway 101, near Camarillo Springs Road, has been identified as the nurse missing since Jan. 14 in Salinas, according to Sgt. Stephen Craig of the Salinas Police Department on Monday, Feb. 3, and confirmed on Thursday, Feb. 6, by the Ventura County medical examiner.

A woman’s body found Friday, Jan. 31, in a ravine about 150 yards off southbound Highway 101, near Camarillo Springs Road, has been identified as the nurse missing since Jan.

02/05/2025

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office Homeless Liaison Unit arrested two Ventura residents for felony arson that occurred in the river bottom south of Olivas Links Golf Course on Monday, Feb.