Construction takes its toll on the mom and pop businesses in Ventura's Gateway Village Shopping Center.

It took firefighters less than 15 minutes to extinguish a spot fire along the 4900 block of East Cochran Street in Simi Valley.

A federal appeals court struck down an Arizona law that bans most abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, saying that women have long had a constitutional right to the procedure for several weeks after that point.

“The Eternal Wonder,” an unpublished novel by Pearl S. Buck that surfaced last year in a storage unit, is to be released this fall by Open Road Integrated Media.    

William Dudley, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, said the economy's performance in the coming months would be critical as the central bank assesses when to begin slowing down its $85 billion-per-month bond-buying program.

The commission selected graduating high school seniors and current college students from the Oxnard area to receive scholarships ranging from $400 to $2,500 for college or other higher learning.

The Port Hueneme City Council got some good financial news Monday night, even with two of its members absent.

After spending four decades working full time as a Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Frank Nausin believes it is time to slow the pace and not be on call 24 hours a day. He will retire May 31 from Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thousand Oaks.

Ventura County firefighters put out a small brush fire Tuesday in the Upper Ojai Valley, officials said.

A local Red Cross volunteer will join the rescue efforts in Moore, Okla., following a devastating tornado that has claimed at least 24 lives.

A judge has dismissed a criminal charge against a former BP executive that alleged he tried to obstruct a congressional investigation into the Deepwater Horizon incident by lying about the amount of oil flowing from the well.

A new affordable-housing project planned for a La Colonia neighborhood will bring 64 apartments to replace an older public housing complex.

Australia's Qantas Airlines is promoting the announcement of its extended flight routes by commissioning a series of books that last exactly as long as each flight.

Australia's Qantas Airlines is promoting the announcement of its extended flight routes by commissioning a series of books that last exactly as long as each flight. 

The Syrian army battled alongside Hezbollah militants to reclaim a rebel-held city, amplifying pressure on President Barack Obama to find a way to alter the course of events in the widening civil war.

Metro-North railroad officials said they plan to restore full train service on the New Haven Line for the Wednesday morning rush hour, five days after a derailment and crash halted train service.

Lawmakers are tussling over the Obama administration's plans to create a small army of assistants to guide millions of Americans, as they sign up for new health-insurance options available this fall.

Large tornadoes swept through towns just south of Oklahoma City, killing at least 51 people—including 20 children—and laying waste to numerous buildings, including more than one elementary school.

The first phases of a new General Plan for Ventura have begun.

The IRS briefed the Treasury Department extensively last month about a looming report that would find the agency had inappropriately targeted applications from conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.

Apple paid no corporate income tax to any nation on tens of billions of dollars in income over the past four years, Senate investigators disclosed ahead of a hearing on Tuesday.