The former school buildings in Ventura were added to the National Register of Historic Places and are already drawing pitches for a housing project.

Ventura Unified, Oxnard Union and the Ventura County Office of Education each approved dozens of final layoff notices, though numbers could decrease.

A man was arrested in Ventura County for brandishing a replica firearm at a taco vendor after a dispute over his order. He faces charges and was released on bond.

Baby geese toddle in and out of Lake Casitas near Ojai. Great horned owlets begin to venture from a palm tree nest. Wide-eyed great blue herons demand food and attention in the Ventura Harbor pine nicknamed the tree of life.

A new wildfire was reported today at 3:15 p.m. in Ventura County. Sack Fire has been burning on private land. At this time, there is no information on the containment of the fire and the cause of it remains undetermined.

Cassie Ventura’s former best friend, Kerry Morgan, described two alleged assaults on Ventura by Sean Combs that Morgan testified she witnessed.