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 ...

LET IT SNOW—Sebastian Sempero, 5, holds his arms up as artificial snow falls on him during a holiday light show at the home of the Tattersall family Dec. 21 in Westlake Village. Mark Tattersall and ...

See bottom of article for Dec. 19 update. A Newbury Park veterinarian was arrested this week on suspicion of multiple charges, including assault and battery and illegal possession of an assault weapon ...

Ventura County could soon find itself at odds with the federal government. With concerns ranging from tourism and fishing to military operations and fragile marine ecosystems, the Ventura County Board ...

Ventura County’s only public university, Cal State Channel Islands, has announced a major new affordability initiative designed to expand access to higher education for California families: the ...

We felt it again as news reached us of the mass violence at Brown University and Bondi Beach in Australia—attacks that shattered places meant for gathering, learning, leisure and, in this case down ...

It’s said a person dies twice: first, when he or she stops breathing and again when people stop saying his or her name. Hospice of the Conejo helps families through the former and holds a special ...

Conejo Players Theatre is bringing back its popular Readers Theatre program with a free, family-friendly staged reading of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.” Following last year’s single sold-out ...