As crews worked to put out a vegetation fire sparked along the Santa Clara River bottom in Ventura County in the afternoon of June 16, a bigger brush fire broke out along the river, near a community ...

A vegetation fire sparked along the Santa Clara River bottom in Santa Paula late afternoon June 16, and a second, more feisty fire started up the river near Piru around 6:20 p.m. The Ventura County ...

Last winter’s rains carried a dreaded guest in otherwise welcome flows wetting the Santa Clara River after years of drought. Tiny, hard-shelled invaders that in 2013 infested Lake Piru – the man-made ...

Recreational boating at Lake Piru in eastern Ventura County temporarily shut down as the water level dropped in recent weeks. The lake dropped significantly during a planned release, according to the ...

VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. – The Ventura County Fire Department is part of the response fighting a 43.8-acre vegetation fire south of Piru and the Santa Clara River, according to the VCFD. All evacuation ...

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