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Students at a Santa Barbara City College wellness event which is also a celebration of the kickoff of a statewide online wellness hub.

Student wellness center concept pioneered at Santa Barbara City College being taken statewide

Lance Orozco

SBCC is running a new online wellness website that provides connections to local resources for students at the state's 116 community colleges.

A helicopter makes a water drop on a brush fire north of Simi Valley Thursday night. It burned 13 acres of land.

Ventura County firefighters stop brush fire north of Simi Valley

Lance Orozco

The fire reportedly burned 66 acres Thursday night, but mapping on Friday morning downsized the number to 13 acres.

Man struck and killed by car while walking on Highway 101 in Ventura County

Lance Orozco

CHP investigators are trying to figure out why the man was in the middle of a freeway lane.

Around a hundred new EV chargers have been installed at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks

Around a hundred new EV chargers have been installed at a Thousand Oaks university campus.

Caroline Feraday

It’s a big step towards providing the infrastructure for electric vehicles in the Conejo Valley.

Robert Michael is one of the military veterans who have found a home at a new permanent affordable living community in Ventura

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'Did this really happen?' Meet the military veteran who went from homelessness to a permanent affordable home in Ventura County

Caroline Feraday

A new permanent supportive housing community which prioritizes formerly homeless and low-income veterans and their families, officially opened in Ventura County on Thursday.

A brush fire is burning in the hills north of Simi Valley Thursday night.

No homes reported threatened by brush fire in Ventura County, in hills north of Simi Valley

Lance Orozco

The fire, which started Thursday, is northeast of Erringer Road.

Some of the goats and sheeps in a brush abatement program underway near the Ventura-Los Angeles County line, in the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area.

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Central Coast firefighter finds a second way to fight fires: He enlists the aid of sheep and goats

Lance Orozco

Fire captain picks up second career as rancher, raising herds of animals being used for brush removal.

New online tool helps community track rebuilding progress from Ventura County's Mountain Fire

Lance Orozco

The recently introduced dashboard shows that, as of Tuesday, the county had received 41 rebuilding applications and issued 12 building permits.

The fifth annual Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival is taking place on September 26th and 27th at the historic Lobero Theatre.

How about a way to experience all the excitement of surfing without getting wet?

Caroline Feraday

The fifth annual Santa Barbara Surf Film Festival is September 26 and 27 at the Lobero Theatre.

Authorities are looking for anyone who may have seen Isabel LucasVelasco in San Luis Obispo County recently.

Authorities asking for the public's help in mysterious disappearance of woman on the Central Coast

Lance Orozco

Isabel LucasVelasco, 50, was last seen in San Luis Obispo County on September 12.