As housing costs continue to climb across California, a growing number of Americans are thinking smaller—and smarter. The tiny home movement, once a fringe lifestyle trend, has entered the mainstream, ...

The last time drummer Kofi Baker played at The Canyon club, he literally performed with one hand behind his back. Baker, the 56-year-old son of iconic Cream drummer Ginger Baker, was preparing to play ...

A survivor who escaped years of brutal exploitation told a Simi Valley audience last week that human trafficking rarely looks like the abductions seen on television—and that awareness and community ...

A majority of Simi Valley voters appear willing to support new school bond measure in 2026, even as residents continue paying off two existing bonds, according to a new feasibility study presented to ...

Walk into a grocery store in Ventura county today and try not to laugh—or cry. The shelves are full, but the prices scream scarcity. What used to be routine errands now feel like financial endurance ...

Simi Valley recorded a strong year of film and television production in 2025, with 296 total production days that contributed an estimated $5.25 million in direct economic impact to the local economy, ...

When Oak Park resident and licensed clinical social worker Ophra Ashur became a grandmother and started reading with her son’s young daughter, Lila, she thought she saw room for improvement in how the ...

After months of debate fueled by frustration over power shutoffs, the idea of creating a countywide public electric utility in Ventura County is effectively on hold—if not dead—after supervisors ...

The Simi Valley Town Center will soon be losing its biggest retail store due to another round of downsizing by Macy’s. The struggling department store giant is closing its Simi store and four other ...

BRAINS AND BEAUTY—Contestants in the 2025 Miss/Teen Moorpark & Miss/Teen Simi Valley Scholarship Competition enter the stage alongside the previous year's winners on Aug. 9 in Moorpark. Ten girls ...

NOW OPEN—Caleb Siddall from Prestige Maintenance helps Rob Zucca, an exhibit specialist at the National Archives, remove a plastic cover from a stormtrooper costume in the “Star Wars and SDI: ...