Over the last twenty years there’s been a shift in approach to incarcerating children in California. These days, the overarching goal is to reduce reliance on incarceration.That’s reflected with a detention facility in Ventura County that was originally built for around 400 young detainees but today houses only around 80.In this episode of The One Oh One, how new thinking on juvenile detention is affecting local facilities and youth ..read more

According to state data, the neighboring cities of Oxnard and Port Hueneme have some of the very worst air quality in California.In this episode of The One Oh One, we look at the sources of that pollution and what’s being done about it ..read more

How reliant are Ventura and Santa Barbara counties on the economic contributions of local undocumented immigrants?In this episode of The One Oh One, a look at how illegal workers contribute over $9 billion annually to the local economy and personally pay over $2 billion in state and federal taxes every year ..read more

A new marine sanctuary off of California's Central Coast could aid in the discovery of over 140 shipwrecks ..read more

In this in-depth piece, we gain more insight into the Central Coast’s Planned Parenthood, and discover abortions account for less than 10% of patient visits. Instead, a large part of their work is serving communities who lack access to basic reproductive services – the majority of those patients are Latino and low-income ..read more

When police searched a home in Mussel Shoals about twenty years ago they found dozens of tapes and photos of drugged women being sexually assaulted. Many victims didn’t know what had happened to them. In this episode of The One Oh One podcast – part of a two part series – we revisit one of Ventura County’s most notorious crimes and learn where the story picks up today. These are the crimes of Andrew Luster ..read more

When police searched a home in Mussel Shoals about twenty years ago they found dozens of tapes and photos of drugged women being sexually assaulted. Many victims didn’t know what had happened to them.In this episode of The One Oh One podcast – part of a two part series – we revisit one of Ventura County’s most notorious crimes and learn where the story picks up today.These are the crimes of Andrew Luster ..read more

Twenty years ago this month a rocket blasted off into space with an invention on board that would go on to transform access to space. That invention, called the CubeSat, was a tiny satellite the shape and size of a square tissue box.It became so popular that last year it was inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame ..read more

Ventura County’s share of elderly residents is predicted to quadruple over the next few decades while the amount of people to care for these seniors is predicted to decrease dramatically.In this episode of The One Oh One we look at what’s been called the silver tsunami and its consequences. (Part 1 of a two-part series ..read more

Some of the most productive ecosystems on the planet can be found on the underwater structures of oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel. So, when you’re decommissioning and dismantling an oil platform what do you do with these thriving ecosystems ..read more