JPL is a research and development lab federally funded by NASA and managed by Caltech. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Budget uncertainty prompts layoffs at JPL 

The director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena this week shared bad news with her team regarding layoffs being forced upon the rocket science facility and its contractors.  The

The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station on Golden Valley Road.

Deputies seeks suspect in hot-prowl burglary 

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials are investigating a report of a hot-prowl burglary after a woman reported being woken up by a man who had broken into her home,

Santa Clarita City Hall

City shares outlook in budget talk 

Santa Clarita kicked off the first budget study session for the 2024-25 fiscal year with a slightly more optimistic tone than last year but with a call to try and

City to hold first budget study session  

The city of Santa Clarita is once again starting its annual public budget process in a City Hall conference room with its council and commission members.   City Manager Ken Striplin

SCV gets nearly 5 inches of rain in 48 hours 

  An atmospheric event predicted to touch down in the Santa Clarita Valley a week ahead of Super Bowl Sunday did not disappoint, with the area receiving a cumulative total

Kaiser Permanente mum on Tourney Road deal 

A representative for Kaiser Permanente declined to comment Thursday on the news of its acquisition this month of a building between its two existing facilities on Tourney Road.   The building

Sheriff's deputies established a containment in response to a barricaded suspect who was reported to be seen carrying a machete near Canyon Springs Elementary School on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024. Tyler Wainfeld/The Signal

Standoff ends, suspect in custody

School locked down after report of man with machete; hourslong barricade ensues By Perry Smith & Tyler Wainfeld  Signal Staff Writers  Sheriff’s deputies with the department’s Special Enforcement Bureau arrested a

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Store owner reports $9K loss in robbery 

The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station is investigating another brazen mid-day strong-arm robbery, which resulted in a reported loss of about $9,000 on Wednesday for the Canyon Country store owner.  SCV

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Teen arrested after rape reported at Old Orchard Park 

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of rape Tuesday night in Newhall, according to station officials.  Station officials received a report from the victim,

Money race is tight in 23rd District 

The fundraising race for one of the more hotly contested seats in California’s March 5 Primary Election is heating up with less than six weeks to go until Election Day. 

Marco Marrufo, 38, was leaving Chiquita Canyon Landfill in his 1999 Ford F-150 pickup truck around 5:30 p.m. when the collision occurred, according to Officer April Elliott of the California Highway Patrol. Courtesy

Father of 4 killed in fatal crash 

The community is helping a Piru family mourning the loss of a father of four who died in a four-vehicle collision Friday in Val Verde.  Marco Marrufo, 38, was driving

Snow covers the mountain peak near the Phillips Station meadow where the California Department of Water Resources conducted its second media snow survey of the 2024 season at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada. The statewide snowpack is 52 percent of normal in the Sierras, with more snow expected in the next seven day forecast for the Sierras. The survey is held approximately 90 miles east of Sacramento off Highway 50 in El Dorado County. Photo taken January 30, 2024. Fred Greaves / California Department of Water Resources

Forecast warns of wet winter ahead  

Santa Clarita Valley residents might want to keep their raincoats, umbrellas and galoshes at the ready this week, according to the forecast.  The rain could come as early as the