City employees and Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station deputies responded to a downed tree that blocked the southbound lanes of McBean Parkway, after Summerhill Lane, late Wednesday morning on June 11, 2025. Habeba Mostafa/ The Signal

Saugus residents approve new landscaping fees 

By a relatively slim margin, Saugus residents in three different landscape maintenance districts approved a city request that they raise their landscaping fees so the cost aligns with the requested

Santa Clarita explains curfew crackdown 

Santa Clarita City Manager Ken Striplin said Tuesday a recent crackdown on the city’s curfew law, which “has been on the books for a couple of decades,” has come from

City thanks Schiavo for mobile command unit funds 

The city of Santa Clarita celebrated Thursday the delivery of a long-awaited resource intended to help the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department with its local emergency response: a mobile command unit. 

City hosts annual State of the City  

The city celebrated the progress of its five-year Santa Clarita 2025 plan Thursday as part of its annual State of the City celebration, which highlighted city programs aimed at helping

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City recommends ‘No’ vote on Prop. 50 

Santa Clarita City Council members shared several reasons Tuesday why they were unanimously recommending a “No” vote on Proposition 50 in November’s single-issue statewide election.  Proposition 50, the Election Rigging

Father shares memories of son killed in crash 

Jonathan Xavier Dicristofaro, 18, had just graduated high school and made a pact with his father, Alvaro, the elder Dicristofaro recalled in a phone interview Tuesday.  Jonathan Dicristofaro had been

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Suspect arrested in Castaic rape investigation  

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies arrested a man after he was accused of two incidents of sexual assault against the same alleged victim in Castaic.   The 36-year-old Palmdale bus

City to consider landscaping fee hike 

The city of Santa Clarita on Tuesday is looking to right-size the landscape fees for more than 600 Saugus properties, which haven’t been re-assessed in years.   The city started hosting

Santa Clarita to take up Prop. 50 discussion 

The Santa Clarita City Council plans to discuss Proposition 50, the Election Rigging Response Act, during Tuesday’s council meeting, following a presentation from city staff.  During their Sept. 9 meeting,

Hart district releases terms in settlement 

Officials for the William S. Hart Union High School District on Thursday released the terms for the settlement of a lawsuit a teacher filed claiming discrimination by a longtime administrator.