DOWNFALL—A large oak tree crashes to the pavement in the Westlake Plaza shopping center at Westlake Boulevard and Agoura Road on Jan. 2 during last week’s wild weather. The tree is one of the few that ...

Passersby were alarmed last week to see one of the city’s large oak trees along Thousand Oaks Boulevard being cut into pieces. After all, the municipality takes seriously the protection of its ...

Just as the City Council is starting the new year with a new mayor, having elected Mikey Taylor as its leader, so too will Thousand Oaks’ other elected public agency boards have new leadership. The ...

All businesses operating within Thousand Oaks are required to maintain a business tax certificate. Because the city’s tax certificates, also referred to as business licenses, expire on Dec. 31 of each ...

Thousand Oaks entered 2026 with an arrest of five young people connected to a shooting that took place on New Year’s Eve. At 1:20 a.m. on Dec. 31, Thousand Oaks Patrol officers responded to a report ...

I read the Dec. 26 article headlined “ICE actions criticized” with concern, not because residents spoke critically of federal immigration enforcement, but because the piece substituted emotional ...

A man imprisoned for 24 years following the slaying of a fellow teen in a backyard drug brawl that destroyed lives and rocked a community was granted parole late last month. Originally sentenced to ...

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 ...

Paralympics gold medalist Hunter Woodhall, left, and his wife Tara Davis-Woodhall talk to a very excited Amelia Welch, 8, during a meet-and-greet opportunity during the daylong event. Hunter Woodhall ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...