A new circus is coming to town this weekend! But the faces stepping into the spotlight are familiar to anyone who loves the ...

The summer season has officially begun. I beg of you three things: Don’t forget the sunscreen, take the long way home from ...

Last week was Public Works Week, and the American Public Works Association’s 2025 theme was “People, Purpose, Presence.” ...

Growing up in a rural community outside Syracuse in central New York State, Joseph Brandt had a lot of cousins, nephews and nieces who were around the same age. They were all drawn to the fantasy ...

The peace of a normally quiet Simi Valley neighborhood was shattered on May 3 when an airplane plunged from the sky and collided with two occupied homes, killing a father and son along with a dog.

Since 2006 I’ve been involved in the entertainment industry as a writer, director, actor and comedian. Twenty years ago, people wanted to write novels and create art. Today, young people don’t really ...

Damaris and Gabriel Valora hope Saturday’s “Missing in the Ojai Valley” event sheds light on the case involving their missing daughter, Zyanya, 22, and potentially provides answers for other families.

New camping opportunities are available or will be soon in the Ojai, Rincon and Lake Casitas areas. A tent-camping area at county-owned Camp Comfort near Ojai quietly reopened last month following its ...

Backpacking from Mexico to Oregon on the Pacific Crest Trail in 1985, we passed through fields of flowers. Splashes of cactus blossoms and walls of blue ceanothus, acres of lavender iris, meadows of ...

Where the West Fork of the Sespe Creek converges with the Sespe River, there’s a sharp oxbow bend, a significant curvature along the boulder-strewn runnel that forced us to bucket brigade our ragged ...

Architects Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene designed some of the most famous homes in the U.S., including the Gamble House, a National Historic Landmark mansion in Pasadena known as a ...