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Vote on rail segment delayed
Members of the California High Speed Rail Authority board failed to vote as scheduled Thursday on a proposed Sand Canyon bullet train route because they ran out of time, a spokeswoman said. The board released details last weekend of three proposed routes for the Bay Area-to-Los Angeles train that would take passengers speeding along the leg between Sylmar and Palmdale at the mouth of Sand Canyon. Two of the options would be studied and the ...
Rail plan cuts close
The proposed Bay Area-to-Los Angeles high-speed rail would take out several posh Sand Canyon homes and a church, as well as send 220-mph trains within a few hundred feet of two Canyon Country schools under one plan being considered.
County trims $565M with proposed budget
Los Angeles County officials Tuesday unveiled a proposal for a $23.8 billion budget - a reduction of $565 million compared to last year's budget - as the county continues to tighten its belt in the aftermath of the recession. The county is projecting slow growth for the 2012-2013 fiscal year, with increases in county sales tax to near pre-recession levels and a gradual decrease in unemployment. But a struggling housing market is still an issue, ...
Hart Park might get $1M upgrade
County supervisors are due to decide Tuesday whether to pitch in $1 million to upgrade the front of William S. Hart Park, replacing chain link with a masonry-and-wrought-iron fence and improving the entrance.
CORRECTION: State approves four annexations
State officials approved the annexation of four parcels of land to Santa Clarita on Wednesday, with three more unincorporated parcels expected to join the city by the end of the year. The Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission, a state agency and independent body overseen by a nine-member commission, unanimously approved the Copperstone, Elsmere Canyon, Soledad Commons and Vista Canyon/Fair Oaks/Jakes Way/Sand Canyon annexations on Wednesday in Los Angeles, said Paul Novak, executive officer ...
Kellar wins, Boydston edges Ender
Incumbent Bob Kellar was the big winner in Tuesday's Santa Clarita City Council race, and former city councilman TimBen Boydston is heading back to City Hall after unseating Mayor Laurie Ender in a closely contested race.
Library progresses
The massive 30,000-square-foot Old Town Newhall Library on the corner of Lyons and Railroad avenues is nearing completion, and a recent tour shows the building will be multipurpose and technology-centric. Many of the 104 computers are traditional desktops, but residents will also be able to check out laptops - complete with wireless Internet access - and use them anywhere in the library, including in front of a gas fireplace. Features seem designed to create a ...
UPDATE: Expanded enterprise zone receives state approval
The Santa Clarita Enterprise Zone will expand to include unincorporated areas of the Santa Clarita Valley following recent approval from the state of California, officials announced today. Unlike the smaller existing enterprise zone within the city only, the new Santa Clarita Valley Enterprise Zone will take in parts of unincorporated Los Angeles County. The Department of Housing and Community Development issued a letter notifying city officials about the final approval Friday. "The majority of our ...
Council election on Tuesday
More vote-by-mail ballots have been received at City Hall for Tuesday's City Council election than were cast in the previous election in 2010, city officials say.
A home for horses, too
The former racehorse - ribs and hips protruding through his skin - limped on its front leg as it moved to snatch more hay from its bucket at the Castaic Animal Shelter.
CORRECTION: City may grow by leaps and bounds
Santa Clarita is poised to annex about 10 square miles of land - which could propel it into third place in Los Angeles County in terms of city population, surpassing Glendale, city officials say. The Los Angeles County Local Agency Formation Commission, a state agency and independent body overseen by a nine-member commission, is processing applications for seven areas of land that would add an estimated 25,870 people to the population of the city. Santa ...
Council candidates announce last nods
Local organizations and officials have endorsed the following Santa Clarita City Council hopefuls for election April 10:
UPDATE: Animals rescued from alleged backyard butcher
Twenty-nine emaciated farm animals have been seized from a Canyon Country home in a case that officials are describing as a backyard butcher. The lone horse, five cattle, 14 goats and nine sheep were taken from the home Tuesday after officers with Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control served a search warrant at the property, department spokeswoman Evelina Villa said. The livestock are considered to be part of a "backyard butcher" case in ...
Wounded warrior shares story
Leshonda Gill, then a chemical operations specialist for the Army, was 26 years old in 2003 when her convoy was hit by an explosion in Iraq. But the former sergeant told a group of foster and at-risk youth Wednesday that the hardest decision of her life did not come during the attack. It came years later, when she had to ask for help getting herself off the streets of Washington, D.C. Gill was traveling in ...
Contractor protesting stimulus fund use
The CEO of a Sun Valley-based technology company is crying foul after the Santa Clarita City Council awarded a contract using federal stimulus funds to a New Zealand-based firm rather than his business. But city officials say all federal requirements for awarding of stimulus money have been met - and the city saved more than $200,000 in taxpayer funds. The contract is for installing 86 on-board visual display monitors for the entire Santa Clarita Transit ...
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