Oxnard Police Department officials said in a news release. The block is in the Blackstock North neighborhood on the south side of Channel Islands Boulevard, generally east of Saviers Road.

"The fire has been mapped at 55.7 acres with 0 percent containment," a Ventura County Fire Department spokesperson said.

The man, later identified as a 43-year-old Oxnard resident, also reportedly had a fixed-blade landscape scythe. The intersection is south of ... a residential neighborhood to the north.

Three new Oxnard food stops opened along the Highway 101 corridor in recent months, bringing the city flavors from deathly hot chicken to flurries of shaved ice. Gom Snow Desserts, a new spot at ...

headed south from San Luis Obispo, was halted for more than two hours, an Amtrak spokesperson said previously. Firefighters battled a commercial building fire in Oxnard Sunday night, stopping it ...