SCV soccer teams make CIF-SS watch list
On Monday, the CIF-Southern Section 2018-19 preseason boys and girls soccer teams to watch lists were released with one Santa Clarita Valley boys team and three girls teams making the…
Saturday: 4th Annual Pirate Beer Festival
Enjoy an afternoon of great beer, great food and fun with SCV Brewmasters while supporting two charities – Back to the War Zone and Prayer Angels for the Military. The…
Santa Clarita City Councilmember Bill Miranda chats with supporters at the GOP election night party held at Kelly's Wedding Garden in Santa Clarita on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. Dan Watson/The Signal
Voters keep incumbents on City Council seats
Despite a large pool of 15 candidates in the race for Santa Clarita City Council, voters stayed loyal to three incumbents for at least another term, as the tallying of…
‘Art About Agriculture,’ Thomas Fire
The 11th annual “Art About Agriculture” and “From the Ashes: Thomas Fire Photography” exhibits open Saturday at the Santa Paula Art Museum in Santa Paula. “Art About Agriculture,” the popular…
COC Theater Presents Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’
News Release The College of the Canyons theater department continues its season with a production of William Shakespeare’s “Measure for Measure” opening Friday. “Measure for Measure,” once seen as a…
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2018 Election results: Which state propositions passed and which failed?
This November election, Californians had to decide on whether to approve or deny 11 ballot measures on everything from rent control to farm animal confinement and repealing last year’s gas…
Santa Clarita Mayor Marsha McLean Katharine Lotze/Signal
Marsha McLean | Honoring Our Hometown Heroes This Holiday Season
The holiday season is fast approaching, which means families and friends will come together from cities far and wide to spend quality time, enjoy each other’s company and catch up.…
Letters to the Editor
Frank Marion | Republicans Should Have Given FBI Longer Leash
I don’t think the Republicans should have put a time limit on and told the FBI who they could interview, given the importance of the position on the Supreme Court.…
Letters to the Editor
Lois Eisenberg | The Old Boys Club Is Still Up to Their Old Tricks
The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings proved again how women are disregarded as equals and hated by the Old Boys Club sitting in their antiquated stuffed chairs with their antiquated minds not…
Hill unseats Knight in 25th Congressional District race
Voters in the 25th Congressional District decided Tuesday night to send Democratic challenger Katie Hill to Congress in Rep. Steve Knight’s place next year. Knight, R-Palmdale, conceded Tuesday’s hotly contested…
Jury selection underway in Colletta murder trial
Jury selection resumed Wednesday morning in the murder trial of Nicholas Colletta, accused of shooting and killing Ivan Solis in Begonias Lane Park in July last year. After months of…
West Ranch girls golf's Noelle Song is competing in the CIF SoCal Regional Championships on Thursday. Haley Sawyer/The Signal
Patience paying off for West Ranch golf’s Noelle Song
The top lesson that Noelle Song has learned from golf involved planning. “Be patient and do what’s best for your future shot rather than what may impress the other people…
A tale of two races in the 25th District
Money can’t buy votes. But it can sure help get the name out there. In the tale of two completely different campaigns, the results were still being tallied as of…
Letters to the Editor
Bob Comer | Security Solutions Needed to Protect Schools, Churches
It’s my opinion the term “nationalist” refers to those who prefer a nation’s sovereignty over a one-world government. (Not Nazism.) Aren’t weapons of war outlawed already? AK-47’s are fully automatic…
Letters to the Editor
Rowan Pinero | Rush-Hour Traffic Costing SCV Residents Valuable Time
My name is Rowan Pinero, I am a resident of Santa Clarita and am a part of Boy Scout Troop 48. A requirement of this (communication) merit badge is to…
Letters to the Editor
Nick Jensen | Transparency Is Crucial as County Considers Centennial Development
I support the action taken by the Center for Biological Diversity last week to obtain copies of communications between Los Angeles County and the Tejon Ranch Co. We must demand…
Letters to the Editor
Paul O’Brien | A 7th Grader’s Perspective on the Dangers of Texting and Driving
I am very concerned about how many car wrecks are happening in Santa Clarita, and I think a large number are caused because of people texting and driving. Every day…
Signal file photo Empty dump trucks pull into a soil treatment area to pick up clean dirt as viewed on tour of the cleanup efforts of the Whittaker-Bermite site in Valencia in October 2016. Dan Watson/The Signal
Citizen group gets update on Whittaker Bermite cleanup
As the cleanup of Whittaker-Bermite winds down, the watchdog group created to monitor its progress is scheduled to be updated on those final efforts at a public meeting Wednesday.…
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Tesoro hearing to revisit affordable housing
County regional planning commissioners reviewing plans to add 820 homes to Tesoro del Valle, who in August asked the developer to make room in the project for affordable housing,…
Valencia's Ben Gould wrestles against Nordhoff's Jonathan Ortiz during the Tri-Valley League Championship in wrestling at Valencia High School on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. Gould pinned Ortiz in the first round. Nikolas Samuels/The Signal
Valencia’s wrestling team ranked in preseason polls
The Valencia Vikings wrestling team is coming off a transformative season last year, winning its first CIF-Southern Section title in program history. Last season’s finish and this year’s expectations have…
