Saugus boys basketball falters late against Calabasas
The Saugus boys basketball team trailed only twice against Calabasas on Tuesday night at Bishop Alemany High School. The Centurions trailed 2-0 when the Coyotes scored the first basket of…
Valencia boys basketball takes down Viewpoint in The Warrior Classic
It was a 3-point extravaganza for the Valencia boys basketball team on Tuesday night against Viewpoint at Bishop Alemany High School. Every shot from downtown seemed to go in, whether…
Castaic Lions Club Santa Float continues Christmas tradition
Hundreds of Castaic children kicked off the holiday season with a visit from Santa Claus thanks to a partnership between the Castaic Lions Club and The Signal. Here's some of…
West Ranch's Niko Marquez (16) steals the ball from two Ventura High defenders Brian Rea (8) and Garpar Martinez (14) at West Ranch High on Tuesday. Dan Watson/The Signal
West Ranch boys soccer gets a late goal in win against Ventura
West Ranch boys soccer hosted Ventura in a hard-nosed and physical non-league game at West Ranch on Tuesday. The temperature read 64 degrees, but play on the field heated things…
Your Home Improvement
By Robert Lamoureux Signal Contributing Writer Dear Mr. Lamoureux, Two years ago, I had a new driveway, walkway and courtyard put in, it was all colored concrete. Unfortunately, my concrete contractor…
Energy for California by Californians
The holiday season is a time of reflection for all Californians to appreciate the contributions of working families and ensure that we are doing everything we can so the next…
Detectives seek witnesses to injury crash Thanksgiving weekend
Local traffic detectives issued a public appeal Tuesday asking anyone who witnessed a serious crash on the Thanksgiving weekend to come forward with information. Detective Mark Cramer, with the…
Hart High School graduates make feature film together decades later
In the early 1990s, some Hart High School students became friends in the Santa Clarita Valley. Years later, they would reunite to form a film crew and release a low-budget…
Signal file photo of the state's Capitol building in Sacramento
Elected officials take oath in office
Elected representatives of the Santa Clarita Valley assembled in the state capitol Monday to take oaths of office and participate in the first official day of the 2019-20 Legislative session.…
TMU sophomore Anika Neuman forms half of TMU's formidable starting front court. Photo by Darcy Brown
TMU Insider: Mustangs boast dynamic front court, Gardner sets career-high
By Mason Nesbitt For The Signal The Master’s University women’s basketball team features a formidable one-two punch at the four and the five. The No. 14-ranked Mustangs have a 6-foot-6…
Noah Peterson | Is it Time for School Choice?
California has a history of voting down school choice initiatives. Proposition 174 in 1993 and Prop. 38 in 2000 — both forms of school choice voucher programs — failed. But…
Maria Gutzeit | Beginning with the End in Mind
Recently I got the chance to see “Poverty, Inc.” (povertyinc.org, available for streaming.) In the season of giving, it was quite eye-opening. A winner of over 60 film festival awards,…
Letters to the Editor
Ethan Birchall | Heavy Traffic Near West Side Schools
Around West Ranch High School, Rancho Pico Junior High and Oak Hills Elementary School, there is so much traffic. There is a dead end, which makes the traffic even more…
Letters to the Editor
Lois Eisenberg | There Should Be Zero Tolerance for This
Zero tolerance in the immigration crackdown: (The government) was so unprepared at the U.S.-Mexico border. Criminally prosecuting parents and sending their children to shelters and foster homes was a criminal…
Letters to the Editor
Kevin Eliason | Happy Trails, 41
To the media he was known simply as 41. He was way much more than a number. He was a Naval World War II hero, statesman, vice president, president, loving…
Judge Lucy Anendotos, right, swears in Alex Villanueva as the 33rd sheriff of the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, as his wife Vivian looks on. Photo courtesy of LASD
Villanueva sworn in as new sheriff
Vowing to challenge the “established authority” and status quo of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Alex Villanueva made it clear he was going to shake things up as the…
