A 3,000-pound bronze statue of St. Junipero Serra dangled from a crane Thursday on its return to Ventura nearly four years after it was removed in the dark of night from its long-held post in ...

The 248-year-old letter was written in the same month as the Declaration of Independence was adopted. It’s going up for ...

Every year, as thousands of humpbacks return to their breeding grounds near a protected bay, locals gather on the beach to ...

Armed with a first-class relic of St. Junípero Serra, more than 300 faithful began their pilgrimage from Mission Santa Barbara to the Mission Basilica of San Buenaventura, in Ventura, California ...

A tower is rising above Los Posas Road in Camarillo. It's part of the expansion and renovation of the Pleasant Valley ...

Franciscan missionaries led by Antonio de San Buenaventura Olivares begin three missions: Los Adaes, La Bahia, and Mission San Antonio de Valero. An American trader and filibuster, Philip Nolan ...

An ancestral grandmother was taken to the mainland at the age of 13. She became one of the first islanders baptized at the site of what would become Mission San Buenaventura. She later married an ...

Midway Between San Diego and Los Angeles, California" National Museum of American History Picture postcard, "Mission, San Buenaventura, Cal, 1783" National Museum of American History Picture postcard, ...

A new wave of violence in southwestern Colombia signals a worrying spread of conflict into previously calm territories.

In 2020, the statue of Serra was removed from the front of Ventura's City Hall in the middle of the night but was later moved to the Mission San Buenaventura in February 2024 due to Serra's ...

This year's ArtWalk Ventura has expanded with a film festival, poetry readings, children's area and a display of a painting ...

WorldAtlas describes Ventura as a small surfing community that’s famous for its beaches. The website cites attractions such ...