Ojai

The Braille Institute's Mobile Solutions Van will be at the Fillmore Senior Center, 533 Santa Clara Ave., from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 29.

Planning officials say they are near a deal with the operator of a quarry that would let him keep the rock mine open.

People would no longer have to buy an Adventure Pass to spend a day in areas run by the U.S. Forest Service, as long as they don’t use amenities such as restrooms or picnic tables, under a recent court decision.

For Ojai Valley farmers Justin Huhn and Quin Shakra, the triumph of organic over genetically modified crops can be told in the story of a zucchini named Dark Star.

Bobette is a sweet, little, dachshund mix, about 4 years old. She is playful but also loves a good lap. She is good with other dogs and walks beautifully on a leash.

Following is a listing of some places that will be closed Monday for the Presidents Day holiday.

If you are looking for something to do this weekend, here is a list of area events.

The Ventura County Rose Society will meet Thursday at the Ventura County Office of Education Conference Center, 5100 Adolfo Road.

The Ojai City Council voted this week to write two letters objecting to the installation of wireless electricity meters by Southern California Edison.

Defense lawyers for a 17-year-old slaying suspect argued in court that prosecutors had evidence more than a year ago that someone else killed a teen at a party in Meiners Oaks in 2009.

Now that Ventura County Supervisor Steve Bennett has dropped out of the race for a U.S. House seat and is back into a re-election campaign, he’ll find more competition than he’s ever seen for his supervisor’s seat.

The long-vacant Texaco gas station at North Ventura Street and West Ojai Avenue will finally have a tenant and be a tax-producing property, thanks partly to a new Ojai city incentive program.

Robert J. Spitzer will present "Physics, Creation & the Beginning of Time" on Thursday at St. John's Seminary, 5012 Seminary Road.

Akiva Werbalowsky, a 47-year-old Ojai resident, believes his brand of poetic environmentalism is what's needed to lead in the newly drawn U.S. House district that includes most of Ventura County.

Ojai police arrested a 26-year-old man Thursday on suspicion of arson after two campfires burned about 40 square feet of grassland near Chaparral High School in the center of town.