City plans to update housing element 

Santa Clarita is expected to update its housing plan Tuesday, an annual update that resulted in a monthslong back-and-forth between city staff and the state’s Department of Housing and Community

The top photo, courtesy of SCVHistory.com, shows the Plaza Theatre during its heyday in 1973. The same building Friday, shortly before its scheduled demolition. Dan Watson /The Signal

Signs, times changing on Lyons Avenue 

Touting all the glamor of “a night on Broadway,” the Santa Clarita Valley — or the Valencia Valley as The Signal’s publisher tried to call it back then — threw

Longtime Newhall businessman dies at age 75  

Longtime Newhall resident Larry Bird, a man credited for his community dedication and supporting the city’s efforts to make Newhall what it is today, died Sunday of cardiac arrest. He

Planning OKs warehouses near Circle J Ranch 

The Santa Clarita Planning Commission approved Tuesday a little over 400,000 square feet of warehouse and 26,000 square feet of office space to go with it at the northeast corner

Planners look at mixed-use project in Saugus  

Santa Clarita city planners are considering a new mixed-use project just north of Cinema Drive on Bouquet Canyon Road that would add a 50-foot, four-story building with a fifth-floor deck

Black bear struck, killed on Highway 14 

California Highway Patrol officers reported that a black bear was struck and killed early Monday morning in the northbound side of Highway 14, near Soledad Canyon Road.  Officers noted that