Ventura

It’s been less than a week since Glee alum Naya Rivera disappeared. On Wednesday, the Ventura, Calif., police department confirmed Rivera was missing after her 4-year-old son was found alone on the boat she rented during an afternoon outing at Lake Piru.

At least 670 structures were destroyed inside the Malibu city limits in last month’s Woolsey fire, including more than 400 single-family homes with an estimated market value of at least $1.6 billion, it was reported Monday morning.

Authorities are looking to question “Blade Runner” actress Sean Young in connection with the theft of two laptops stocked with footage from a film being shot in Queens, which Young was fired from four months ago.

After months of putting out hot spots, the largest fire on record in California was officially declared out on Friday.

NBC4 helicopter footage compares the sky over Ventura before and during the Thomas Fire.

Homeowner Mike Connor and his family safely evacuated their home, but the Thomas Fire completely destroyed the place they once called home. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News on Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017.

The wildfires raging in Southern California are being fanned by Santa Ana winds, the notoriously gusty and witheringly dry blasts that are linked to some of the worst infernos in the region’s history. A classic Santa Ana is formed when high pressure over the Great Basin causes dry air to flow out of the interior of the West in a...

Scientists say they’ve unearthed fossil remains of a sea cow that lived off Southern California’s Channel Islands some 25 million years ago.

A 30-foot-long humpback whale stuck in Southern California’s Ventura Harbor made its way out Sunday morning. The 30-foot-long whale was first spotted swimming in the harbor around 3 p.m. Saturday, said harborman George Kabris. The whale could be seen swimming into boat slips and coming right up to the edges of the docks as dozens of people watched. Kabris said...

A father and son were stabbed at a youth baseball game in Ventura on Sunday, police said.

A cop impersonator armed with a gun was arrested after police officers spotted him dressed in full uniform next to a fake squad car in a Ventura parking lot Sunday, police said.

A prisoner slipped out of her handcuffs Tuesday evening and ran out of sight from authorities at the Ventura Police Department.

Thousand Oaks police detained two people Wednesday morning suspected of committing over 100 thefts of lawn statues and ornaments from residences in the Thousand Oaks area.