Ventura County (California)

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday said it would not tolerate the harm or killing of an endangered California condor during construction of a proposed Newhall Ranch community of 60,000 residents along the Santa Clara River. In a......

Federal officials failed to protect a native San Francisco plant that was rediscovered near the Golden Gate Bridge after experts believed it had been extinct for decades, an environmental group claims in a lawsuit. The Wild Equity Institute said in......

Paying three farmers to delay harvesting their fields through the nesting season resulted in the protection of an estimated 50,000 tricolored blackbirds in Riverside County and Central California, where the species’ population has plummeted in...

A clutch of city officials and film industry promoters gathered Monday morning on the same lot in East Hollywood where Mary Pickford once worked to celebrate a rare occurrence: the opening of a new soundstage in Los Angeles. Hollywood-based Occidental.......

SANTA PAULA, Calif. (KTLA) -- Police have arrested eight people in connection with the gang rapes of two girls allegedly lured from social networking sites. Seven suspects were arrested without incident Friday in Santa Paula and Ventura, according to...

A rare, unseasonably strong June storm sweeping over Northern and Central California could lead to a 20% chance of rain in Los Angeles on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. The southern edge of the storm is expected to head......

Sandwiches, milkshakes and other food items frequently packaged in foam takeout containers will have to be packaged in other materials under a bill that cleared the state Senate on Thursday. SB 568 by Sen. Alan Lowenthal (D-Long Beach) would prohibit........

'Spider-man' hit with union claim regarding Julie Taymor pay...

A Newport Beach man was killed in a Ventura County freeway crash early Friday, the California Highway Patrol said. Eric Doran, 36, owner of Eat Chow restaurant in Costa Mesa, died on the 101 Freeway in Thousand Oaks at about 5:16 a.m. when a truck rear-...

Active duty military families get free admission at select museums this summer...

OXNARD, Calif. -- Fire crews on Tuesday morning were working to rescue a bear that ran around a Ventura County neighborhood for hours before climbing a tree at a cemetery and taking a long nap. The 200-pound bear was partially tranquilized and had at...

VENTURA COUNTY -- Famed plastic surgeon, Dr. Frank Ryan, was texting while driving moments before he was killed in a crash along Pacific Coast Highway, according to his ex-girlfriend. Charmaine Blake told People magazine that Ryan was sending out a...