For more than 45 years, a woman found dead in a Westlake High School parking lot had no name. Now, investigators say, Maricela Rocha Parga is no longer “Jane Doe Ventura County,” but a mother whose ...

A long-running dispute between the Las Virgenes and Oak Park public school districts over enrollment—previously taken to court—continues, with LVUSD asking the Los Angeles Office of Education to ...

GAME TIME—Men and women play bingo at the Calabasas Senior Center Valentine’s Bingo event on Feb. 13. The Valentine’s Day theme with clothing, candies and decorations in bright red made for a festive ...

A teenage boy was struck and killed by a semi-truck on the Ventura Freeway near the Calabasas-Agoura border on the morning of Feb. 23, according to authorities. The collision occurred around 5:54 a.m.

Attorneys for Fraser Bohm, the Malibu driver charged with murder for the deaths of four Pepperdine University seniors in a 2023 crash on the Pacific Coast Highway, plan to use years of accident ...

A politically charged Thousand Oaks manslaughter case that made international headlines in 2023 may finally go before a jury next month. The court this week scheduled Loay Alnaji, a former Moorpark ...

GREEN THUMB—Annie Wackerman prepares a purple sage plant for planting during the Cheeseboro Canyon Restoration Project Jan. 24 in Agoura Hills. The Santa Monica Mountains Fund and National Park ...

Work has restarted on a long-awaited suicide deterrent fence along the Arroyo Simi Bridge in Moorpark. Construction began in November after a contractor delay, and sections of the fence were already ...

Despite recent talk to the contrary, there are no new delays in the timeline for completion of the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura Hills, according to the project’s most prominent ...

A Ventura County Superior Court judge ruled Jan. 8 in favor of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control and Boeing, rejecting a lawsuit brought by community and environmental groups ...

The Acorn’s recent article about the wildlife crossing is a distraction from the truth about this mismanaged project. Why is it important that the Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Agoura be the biggest?

It’s not a question of size so much as timing, as two wildlife crossing bridges, the biggest in North America (and likely the world using some metrics), are being built within a year of each other in ...