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City wants upscale senior housing
Upscale senior housing with as many as 140 units could be part of downtown Newhall's redevelopment, a Santa Clarita city official said Monday.
Holiday Boutique
The Valencia High School choir recently hosted a Holiday Boutique.
Teen heads to Special Olympics on snowboard
Snowboarding down a black diamond run and weaving in and out of trees is not the way most teenagers spend their weekends. But Marisa Watkins, 15, isn't like most teenagers.
Eight local schools honored
Eight Santa Clarita Valley elementary schools received Honor Roll distinction from the California Business for Education Excellence and Just for the Kids California.
Housing project on hold
Plans to convert a Canyon Country apartment complex to affordable housing have stalled due to the national credit crunch, a Santa Clarita city official said Monday.
Sign of the times
Kelly Kinney has been out of work for two months despite her two bachelor's degrees. But Kinney isn't one to play the victim. When paper resumes didn't work, she put hers on post cards. When that didn't work, she put it on a T-shirt. Kinney, a Santa Clarita resident, was in downtown Los Angeles on Monday, walking the streets wearing her resume T-shirt with extra copies of her resume on hand. She also wears her ...
Smyth chosen as GOP Caucus Chair
Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, R-Santa Clarita, was named Repulican Caucus Chair on Monday, replacing an Assemblyman who was elected to the Senate.
Community leaders jailed at own request
Local business and community leaders will be incarcerated Wednesday. It's all part of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's annual Lock Up. A mock jail will be set up at Outback Steakhouse in Newhall, with local leaders volunteering to be arrested, then "serving time." Jailbirds must raise their own bail by gathering MDA donations from friends and associates. Money raised will be used for the local MDA chapter and help send children with neuromuscular diseases to MDA ...
Parr: One of the 'Sweet 16'
Christine Parr, an English language development teacher at Placerita Junior High School, is one of 16 Los Angeles County Teachers of the Year, representing the profession's best of the best in the largest honors competition for educators in the state.
Guilty verdict in baby dumping case
A jury found Jacquelin Linaras guilty Monday of murdering her newborn girl and discarding the body in a mobile home park trash bin.
Shooting probe presses on
Homicide detectives are still gathering clues in the Friday morning shooting of Alonso Andrade, a sheriff's detective said.
A banner year for local schools
Banners went up across the Santa Clarita Valley this week to thank staff, students and parents of the William S. Hart Union High School District for the outstanding test scores recently reported by the California Department of Education.
Hart board eyes volunteering issues
Hart district board members will discuss revising the board policies and administrative regulations regarding volunteers on school campuses at Wednesday's meeting.
Local vintner hit with lawsuit
A stage manager to the stars is suing the Loose Goose Wine Festival's organizer, claiming he has not been paid for helping create one of Santa Clarita's signature annual events.
Golfers tee up $90k for COC student aid
The tally is in: College of the Canyons Foundation's 18th annual golf tournament raised more than $90,000 to help fund student programs and provide student scholarships and textbook assistance.
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McKeon says Benghazi is not a political issue
Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Santa Clarita, said Thursday that a recent series of controversial topics, such as the inquiry into a terrorist attack on a U.S. embassy in Libya and the investigation into why the Internal Revenue Service applied additional scrutiny to conservative groups, are dominating the discussion on Capitol Hill.
Pit bull attacks second dog in Sand Canyon
A roaming pit bull that ripped the leg off of a smaller dog in Canyon Country is expected to be humanely killed, a county official said Thursday.
UPDATE: Traffic collision blocks I-5 lanes nearly 3 hours
Two lanes of southbound Interstate 5 near Hasley Canyon Road were closed for almost three hours Thursday afternoon after two big rigs collided, blocking traffic and scattering debris in the area, a California Highway Patrol official said.
UPDATE: Hart district to appoint new board member
Members of the William S. Hart Union High School District board will appoint someone to replace former board member Paul Strickland, rather than holding a special election for the seat.
UPDATE: Fire burns 3,500 acres in Calif. national forest
FRAZIER PARK, Calif. (AP) - Cooler temperatures and lighter winds gave hundreds of firefighters a slight reprieve Thursday from a 3,500-acre wildfire that has blackened rugged terrain in the Los Padres National Forest.
Two Fox bills approved in Assembly
(SACRAMENTO) Assemblymember Steve Fox (D-Palmdale) today announced that Assembly Bills (AB) 588 and 631 were approved by the State Assembly with broad bipartisan support. The bills address protection of student athletes and enhance core education for children in juvenile court schools. Both measures passed by a margin of 70-0, and now advance to the Senate.
Mountain lion stuck in Calif aqueduct tranquilized
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) - Police say a young mountain lion that was trapped in an aqueduct near downtown Santa Cruz has been tranquilized.
UPDATE: Names of victim, suspect released in Acton homicide
Investigators probing a homicide in Acton have released the identities of the man who was shot and killed and the name of his alleged killer.
Acton-Agua Dulce district to vote on Einstein Academy charter tonight
Members of the Acton-Agua Dulce Unified School District board will vote tonight on whether to approve two charter petitions that would allow the Albert Einstein Academy for Letters, Arts and Science to open two schools in the district next year.
Boydston challenges chloride data
Santa Clarita City Councilman TimBen Boydston called the whole issue of chloride cleanup a scam Wednesday night after local sanitation officials presented their plan for reducing how much of the salty compound the sanitation district discharges into the Santa Clara River.
Newhall woman faces murder charges in Arizona
A Newhall woman charged with two counts of second-degree murder in connection with a fatal 2011 crash near the Arizona state line that claimed the lives of two children goes on trial in Arizona this week, The Signal has learned.
Reward offered in case of anti-Semitic graffiti
Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the vandals who defaced HOA complex structures with racist slogans and anti-Semitic symbols at a Saugus HOA.
UPDATE: Blaze blackens 3,000 acres in 5 hours
More than a dozen law enforcement units from three sheriff's stations, including the Santa Clarita Valley's, were sent to the Frazier Park fire late Wednesday afternoon to evacuate the area near the Los Angeles-Kern County line as a massive brush fire moved south toward Los Angeles County, a local sheriff's spokesman said.
UPDATE: SCV: County road work curbs business owners’ traffic
Some owners of about 10 businesses in a strip mall near the Valencia Industrial Center complained Wednesday that county road workers who showed up unexpectedly were blocking customers and cutting into their revenue.
Tour of California racers blast out of SCV
After a night's rest in the Santa Clarita Valley, cyclists competing in the annual Amgen Tour of California left town en mass Wednesday to completed the first half of the eight-day race in Santa Barbara.
