Ventura

Weather officials had been warning Californians about the wrath of El Niño for months — even as some residents had begun to think the typically soaking climate pattern had gone AWOL.But after an anemic start to the state’s rainy season, those admonitions have come to bear in brutal fashion as fast-moving storms have inundated portions of Ventura, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, flooding neighborhoods, spurring water rescues, triggering evacuations and stunning experts with their strength and magnitude.…

Despite high-surf warnings along California’s coastline, eight people in Ventura were injured Thursday when they were struck by a massive rogue wave that swept over a sea wall and flooded area streets. At least a dozen people were watching swells from the sea wall near South Seward Avenue about 10:50 a.m. when a large wave crashed over them, a video posted online by the Ventura County Fire Department shows. When the spectators saw the wave coming, they began running, while the drivers of two trucks also tried to flee,…

Ventura County sheriff’s narcotics investigators busted a “large-scale transnational drug trafficking organization” this week that was operating a cocaine delivery service in Ventura and Los Angeles counties, authorities said.Detectives made eight arrests and seized more than 5 pounds of cocaine, five firearms and “a significant amount of suspected drug proceeds,” sheriff’s officials announced in a news release Friday. The bust followed a five-month investigation into the drug trafficking operation.The delivery service…

A once-in-a-millennium storm brought flooding to roadways across Ventura County and a brief tornado warning early Thursday, with more rain expected for Southern California through Friday.For an hour, more than 3 inches of rain fell on the Oxnard plains in Ventura County, according to the National Weather Service. The Ventura County Fire Department reported that 911 dispatchers received over 275 calls for help over a five-hour period as floodwaters rose in the coastal communities of Port Hueneme and Oxnard.“The…

Ventura County firefighters on Saturday were battling a brush fire fueled by Santa Ana winds that has burned about 300 acres and triggered evacuations in the Somis area near Santa Paula.The fire, dubbed South fire, was first reported at about 9:38 a.m. on South Mountain near the 118 and 126 freeways, with initial reports indicating 3 to 4 aces in size. By late morning, Andrew Dowd, public information officer for Ventura County Fire Department, said the wind-driven fire had ballooned to 300 acres. “I don’t have any…

With a small iOS 16.6 update now available to iPhone users, Apple is also releasing macOS Ventura 13.5 with no notable updates, except for an interesting fix for iPod shuffle owners. Tech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox. Sign up for the most interesting tech & entertainment news out there. By signing up, I agree to the Terms of Use and have reviewed the Privacy Notice. On macOS Ventura 13.5 Release Notes, Apple says it has “fixed an issue where iPod shuffle (3rd and 4th generation cannot be…

As attention begins to turn to macOS 14 and WWDC 2023, Apple continues to work on the current macOS 13 Ventura release. As part of that, the company has now made the second macOS 13.5 beta available for download by developers.Developers who have the required developer profile installed can now download the second beta from the System Settings app under the Software Update section.While it isn't yet clear when this release will be made available to the public, it's likely that there will be a few more betas before that…

The latest version of macOS Ventura, 13.4, is finally here with some neat extra features. There's a new way to install Beta versions of Apple software, which unfortunately makes things a little more locked down, some tweaks to Apple News sports pages, and a couple of bug fixes.As always, the update might trickle to users a little slower than other software updates but just head to the Software Update portion of the System Settings menu on your Mac to get the installation started. Your Mac will need to be one of those…

After weeks of betas, Apple has now made its iPadOS 16.4, watchOS 9.4, macOS Ventura 13.3, and tvOS 16.4 updates available for download by anyone who wants them. And that means you're probably wondering what's new compared to the beta that came before this final release.Apple doesn't normally make all that many changes from the Release Candidate and late betas to the final release. But we're going to cover the main new features across all of these updates for those who haven't been following along with the many beta…

Apple continues to ready itself for a new round of software updates and has now made the first Release Candidate (RC) version available for developers to download.That means that iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, macOS Ventura 13.3, watchOS 9.4, and tvOS 16.4 are all now closer to a big release than ever, assuming no major issues are found in this latest release.There aren't normally all that many changes in a release candidate update, but that doesn't mean that there are none at all.Let's dive in.iOS 16.4 Voice Isolation(Image…