Tony Biasotti

Editor's note: Vote centers close at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, and the first round of results is expected to be released by 8:30 p.m. This story will be updated as results are released.

The wait was as long as two hours at some polling centers. Many voters said they'd never encountered such long lines in Ventura County.

Firefighters began to get the upper hand on the Mountain Fire on Thursday as the weather turned in their favor, though by the evening the fire was still just 5% contained and had burned through more than 32 square miles.

Firefighters began to get the upper hand on the Mountain Fire on Thursday as the weather turned in their favor, though by the evening the fire was still just 5% contained and had burned through more than 32 square miles.

The fire has burned more than 32 square miles, but its perimeter has not expanded since last week.

The Mountain Fire is largely "buttoned up," Ventura County's fire chief Dustin Gardner said at a news conference Monday evening.

Measures J, K and L in Oxnard each got less than 35% of the vote, according to the latest results from the Ventura County Elections Division.

The Oxnard police officer who shot and killed a man brandishing a knife last year won’t face criminal charges, though the city has paid more than half a million dollars to settle a lawsuit from the man’s family.

Lawsuit was brought by Oxnard man said apartment owners refused to accept Section 8 rent voucher.

The couple sued Southern California Edison two days after their home was destroyed, and asked a court to dismiss the suit a week later.