Thieves capable of heavy lifting and probably equipped with a truck or van took six coinoperated washing machines and a dryer last month from various locations in Newbury Park and Thousand Oaks. First reported stolen was the commercial dryer. It was removed from a laundry room in t... More...

The recent announcement by Elizabeth Edwards, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, that her breast cancer has recurred and spread to her bones, is not something that any cancer survivor or caregiver ever wants to hear. More...

Jenna's married to Earl, her once-upon-a-time sweetheart who's turned mean and surly. Earl treats Jenna like a cheap lawn chair and expects her unwavering adoration in return. Jenna (Keri Russell) and Earl (Jeremy Sisto) live in the rural South, barely scraping by. More...

Year-End Performance Newbury Park High School Choral Music Department hosts annual yearend concert, 7 p.m. today and tomorrow, campus Performing Arts Center, 456 Reino Road. Classic, contemporary music, choral work, solos. $7 donation, open to public. Proceeds benefit music departm... More...

HELPING OTHERS- Carol Yu shows her gavel technique to Sergio Sepe. Carol is charter president of the newly launched Westlake High School Key Club, and Sepe is president of its sponsor, the Thousand Oaks Kiwanis Club. Both organizations are involved in philanthropic efforts. The T.O. Kiwanis meet for... More...

The future has arrived for Newbury Park High senior Andrew Lambo. After two fabulous seasons with the NPHS baseball team- and equipped with a resume that includes a pair of Ventura County Player of the Year awards, More...

Unspecified acts of vandalism occurred between 7:50 a.m. and 1:35 p.m. May 9 in the 400 block of Reino Road. A bedroom in the 600 block oPaseo Esmeralda was burglarized on May 19 or 20. Gasoline was stolen from a parked truck between 6:30 and 11:45 p.m. May 21 in the 2500 block of... More...

We live in a complex world. Technology improves daily, and with it the pace of everyday life increases. Thirty years ago, before there were cellphones and video players, American households had an average of 1.2 technology products, usually just a TV and a radio. Today they have 26. More...

TEAMWORK- Camarillo resident Jeff Rapp and Acacia Elementary School fifth-grader Cassandra Canzano, 11, work together to clean a dwelling in the Crestview Trailer Park in Thousand Oaks. The teamwork occurred during last Saturday's volunteer project, "Taking It to the Streets." More...

Do we really need another Home Depot in Thousand Oaks to fill the vacant Kmart building on Hampshire Road? Don't we already have a Home Depot in Thousand Oaks just a few miles away? More...

To its credit, the city of Thousand Oaks underwrote the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program after Ventura County scrapped DARE in a cost-cutting spree several years ago. While not perfect, DARE at least tried to persuade young people that using drugs is dangerous. Now it's being ca... More...

Here is a single story property with more than 0.5 acre replete with an oversized, gated, paved side space currently used as an RV pad. The property features a fully enclosed pipecorral, an outbuilding complete with electricity and air-conditioning and is zoned for two horses a... More...