Ventura County

Ventura County Medical Center has activated its emergency surge plan after its CEO reported the facility has run out of ICU beds for patients who have tested positive for COVID-19.

Officials announced Ventura County beaches will be closed over the Fourth of July holiday weekend to “prevent crowding that results in the spread of COVID-19.”

Three men, including employees of a sheriff’s office and district attorney’s office, have been arrested for vandalizing a Black Lives Matter sign in Thousand Oaks.

Mandatory evacuation orders have been issued for a remote area of Piru as crews work to contain a wildfire in the area. 

A red flag warning signifying a high risk of wildfire will be in effect in the Southland through Monday night because of gusty winds and very low humidity in much of Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.

Temperatures will climb into the 90s next week in some valley areas of L.A. County and a few Orange County cities, creating heat wave conditions, National Weather Service forecasters said.

Ventura County on Wednesday became the first Southern California county to receive approval from the California Department of Public Health to move forward on an accelerated path to reopening.

The Mamba Sports Academy which was created in partnership with Los Angeles Lakers legend, Kobe Bryant, has retired "Mamba" from its name and will resume as Sports Academy, it was announced Tuesday.

The Ventura County Fairgrounds Board of Directors voted unanimously on Monday to cancel the 2020 Ventura County Fair.  

Golf courses are opened again in Ventura County, where even as stay well at home orders have been extended till at least May 15th, some restrictions have been eased by health officials, as long as people keep maintaining social distancing guidelines.

A Ventura County Sheriff's deputy was arrested Friday afternoon for destroying evidence and filing a false report, the Sheriff's Office said.

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People line up, a few feet apart, at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park, where communion was offered under the watchful eye of sheriff deputies and the loud car honking protests of area residents saying this was a danger to their community on Palm Sunday.

The City of Ventura announced on Saturday the closure of all parks and beaches until further notice due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

For many Southern California landmarks, times are tough. Earlier this week FOX 11 reported that the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library was in danger of closing, but the Library says it's not in danger of closing. So we wanted to clarify that story.

On Sunday, Ventura County Public Health officials have confirmed its first death and four new cases of COVID-19 bringing the total to 30 positive cases.

The Ventura County Office of Education has announced that all school closures will be extended through Friday, May 1. 

The Ventura Unified School District announced that it's closing all Ventura Unified schools beginning Monday, March 16 through Friday, April 10 due to coronavirus concerns.

A Simi Valley man was one of two Marines who died during a mission to eliminate an ISIS stronghold in north-central Iraq.