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FAFSA Changes roll out in delayed soft launch in 2024
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The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) was delayed from its usual launch on Oct. 1 until Dec. 30 when it was announced that the availability of the form was part of a soft launch. The delay for the 2024-2025 FAFSA was due to changes made to the form required by the FAFSA…
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Trump wins New Hampshire primary election in 2024
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On the morning of Jan. 24, primary election results broke out for New Hampshire, with former President Donald Trump securing the republican primary with 54% of the vote. President Joe Biden won the democratic write-in vote by 63%, however Trump won New Hampshire with over 176,000 votes. Less than a week prior to the…
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Jeffrey Epstein court documents unsealed
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On Jan. 2, 2024, more than 4,553 pages involving sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein were published to the public. These documents are expected to be the last of the documents that have been ordered to be unsealed. They were approved to be released by the DC District Judge Loretta Praska as part of a settled…
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Negotiations for Westlake private school in gridlock
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Carden Conejo remains unwilling to sign the current 15th version of the lease proposal with the Conejo Valley Unified School District because of a clause that terminates it if the property is sold. An email between Dr. Mark McLaughlin, superintendent, and Carden Conejo’s president, Nasi Peretz, dated Nov. 15, 2023, CVUSD maintained they would…
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La Reina closes its doors after 60 years
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La Reina High School and Middle School, the private all-girls Catholic school in Thousand Oaks, announced on Jan. 24 that it will close this June. The announcement was made by President Anthony Guevara to alumnae and current families attending the school, which was founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame and has resided in…
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Kate Cox faces the toll of U.S. abortion bans
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On June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a five-decade old decision that protected a woman’s right to receive an abortion. With this constitutional right reversed, 14 U.S. states have enacted a near-total abortion ban with very few exceptions. Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two, filed a lawsuit against the…
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805 Night Market brings flavors to Thousand Oaks
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Traveling all over Southern California, the 805 Night Market made its way to Thousand Oaks on Dec. 16-17. Over 30 vendors participated at Cal Lutheran University in representing culture and helping bring the Conejo Valley community together to celebrate heartwarming spirit. Although the main attraction of the 805 Night Market is the wide variety…
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18 murdered in deadliest shooting in Maine’s history
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On Oct. 26, Robert Card killed 18 people and injured 13 at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine. Days later, Card was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. This shooting was the deadliest mass killing in all of Maine’s history; there have been over 500 mass shootings in 2023 according to…
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Malibu mourns the loss of local students
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On Tuesday, Oct. 17, there was a car accident that killed four Pepperdine University students and injured two other pedestrians. Those four college students were on the sidewalk along the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) when the accident took place. The girls were pronounced dead at the scene and then identified as seniors from Pepperdine…
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UFO’s fly into sight, raising suspicion among citizens in the U.S.
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The Pentagon’s new office for investigating potential Unidentified Flying Objects, have recently received over hundreds of reports in 2022. Although many of these objects can be explained a good portion remains a puzzle. In the summer of June 2021, an early report released a list of 144 reports of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings, over…