The most ballyhooed mid-cycle election in recent political memory is still months away, but the importance of the contest means at least one race, California’s 42nd Assembly District, is already ...

Across the United States, immigration has become a rhetorical battleground. What should be a serious debate over border security, economic needs, humanitarian obligations and the rule of law has too ...

Conejo Valley golfers are lucky. They play on beautiful courses while avoiding robot varmints canoodling in crepuscule; dynamite-obsessed greenskeepers; malcontent Bushwood caddies all out of bubble ...

While local photographer Ed Lawrence was documenting the waning days of the Conejo Valley’s ranching past as it gave way to modernity, sheep grazed in meadows near companies like IBM and home builders ...

SHARING MEMORIES—Above, Karsten Lundring, left, and Shawn Howie lead a celebration of life for James Kallas last month at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. Kallas was the first professor to ...

On Oct. 15, after just one full day of deliberation, a jury found Thousand Oaks resident Saul Nava guilty of torturing and murdering his girlfriend, Alisen Takacs-Escobar. Nava also committed ...

Did 2025 go out with a bang or a whimper? Depending on who you ask, worldwide it was an emotionally charged year or a ho-hum one that will make barely a dent in the history books. Locally, however, we ...

The high-stakes race to replace Jacqui Irwin as representative for the California 42nd Assembly District in the 2026 election has its first contender—plus another possible candidate who’s still a ...

Heavenly Father’s Foundation, a charitable organization founded by Texas fracking billionaire Dan Wilks, is in escrow to purchase the Miller Family YMCA in Newbury Park. Wilks, who along with his ...

VICTORY MOVES— Grace School’s Jake Williams gets a hand in the face while being tackled by members of the Santa Paula High team during the CIF-Southern Section Division 12 championship at Cal Lutheran ...

Six months after the former Quality Inn hotel, the site selected for Thousand Oaks’ first homeless shelter, went into foreclosure, a local nonprofit that provides affordable housing to low-income ...

For Zack Zernik, hiking, climbing and exploring were second nature. From the moment he joined the Cub Scouts, Zack exuded an adventurous passion. When he got older, he could scarcely stand being ...