A packed Simi Valley City Council meeting April 21 sent a clear message to city leaders: Low pay and staffing shortages are straining public services and driving employees to look elsewhere. City ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has a new interactive mapping tool to visualize the urban tree canopy across California. The tool was developed in partnership with the USDA ...

Joseph Ayala didn’t set out to become a politician, but when an opening appeared on the Simi Valley City Council earlier this year, the longtime community volunteer saw his chance to make a broader ...

Civil rights attorneys are calling on prosecutors to file hate crime charges against a Simi Valley woman accused of shoving a pregnant street vendor to the ground during a confrontation captured on ...

Saddle up your steel horse and join the Sgt. Ron Helus Ride for the Blue honoring Ventura County’s first responders. The event, now in its 10th year, takes place May 3. Each year hundreds of ...

Whether looking for full-time work, a part-time position or an internship, job seekers of all ages are welcome to today’s job fair at the Simi Valley Library. The Sat., April 26 event is presented by ...

Almost two years to the day he committed a crime spree that killed Westlake High School freshman Wesley Welling and injured several others, Austin Eis was sentenced to 85 years to life in state prison ...

For the first time in California history—and only the second time in the U.S. since 2013—the oldest known surviving fragment of the Ten Commandments text found to date, is now on display at the Reagan ...

The Simi Valley Street Fair, the city’s largest annual community event, returns to the Simi Town Center on May 3. The free event is expected to again draw more than 20,000 attendees for a day of ...

The Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District board of directors voted last month to convert some of the non-functional turf at 37 Simi Valley parks into mulch or drought-tolerant landscaping due to ...

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire has released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps—and the changes are significant for Simi Valley and Ventura County in general. Ventura County ...

The theater and dance department at Cal Lutheran University will stage Neil Simon’s “Rumors” next week. Set in New York during the late 1980s, “Rumors” follows Ken and Chris Gorman, who are attending ...