Tony Biasotti

Jerry Boylan, the captain of the Conception dive boat, will stay out of prison while he appeals his manslaughter conviction, a federal judge ruled last week.

Homes in Ventura County have never been more expensive, though the rate of price increases has slowed since the supercharged real estate market of the first couple of years of the pandemic.

In 2018, burglary crews started hitting homes in nice neighborhoods in and around Thousand Oaks.

Oxnard's city treasurer will likely be back to his old duties and his old pay soon, under a court order that takes effect Friday, though he says he has yet to work out with the city exactly how and when that will happen.

The median price of the 281 homes sold in the county in August was $965,000.

This is the first story in a three-part series on government pay in Ventura County. The first identifies the county's highest paid worker and examines

Last year, half of the 10 highest-paid public servants in the county were health care executives. In 2018, none of the top 10 worked in health care.

One county fire captain earned $208,000 in overtime pay alone in 2023. One sheriff's deputy made $190,000. Both worked thousands of hours of overtime.

The Ventura-based outdoor apparel company Patagonia is laying off 41 people, its second round of job cuts this year.

With no incumbent on the ballot in Oxnard's mayoral race, voters will choose the next elected leader of Ventura County's largest city in November.