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City announces midyear budget changes 

Ahead of the new calendar year, city of Santa Clarita officials announced their adjusted fiscal forecast has improved the city’s bottom line by about $5.3 million.  Each year, the city

Smyth named mayor for 2024  

Recognition, resolutions and even a Sheriff’s Department challenge coin were among the gifts given to outgoing Santa Clarita Mayor Jason Gibbs as he passed the gavel Tuesday to the incoming

Well-known SCV historian A.B. Perkins sits at his typewriter. Courtesy SCV History

City to receive historical archives for library 

The Santa Clarita City Council is expected to approve spending $20,000 to acquire and preserve for the local library system a priceless collection of Santa Clarita Valley antiquity that belonged

City Council expected to increase bus contract 

Santa Clarita City Manager Ken Striplin told the public for weeks that officials were in constant communication with MV Transportation over the company’s contract with Santa Clarita Transit’s drivers, who

A trash truck dumps its load at the Chiquita Land Fill in Castaic in 2018. Dan Watson/The Signal

AQMD moves hearing board meeting  

After a flurry of communication, the Air Quality Management District is rescheduling a hearing board meeting over a violation alleging Chiquita Canyon Landfill didn’t disclose problems with its leachate-collection in

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DA declines to file charges for burglary suspects 

The L.A. County District Attorney’s Office declined to file charges against a pair of burglary suspects after a monthslong investigation, a Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station detective confirmed Thursday.  Court

SCV Water votes to stay in PFAS lawsuit 

  Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency officials voted Friday evening to stay in litigation with 3M and Dupont, a case that is progressing on a yearslong settlement timeline expected to

FILE PHOTO A Los Angeles County Fire Department truck moves quickly to scene.

No injuries reported in Saugus house fire 

L.A. County firefighters put out a garage fire in minutes Tuesday, with fire officials reporting the home in the 22000 block of Rodeffer Place, south of Copper Hill Drive and

Bail lawsuit faces hearing next week 

A group of cities suing to stop Los Angeles County Superior Court’s emergency bail policy is scheduled to make their case in Orange County next week, according to an attorney

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Detectives asking public for help in shooting 

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station detectives are asking the public if they have any information regarding a report of gunshots in Val Verde early Saturday morning.   No one was struck

Santa Clarita City Hall

Upgrades OK’ed for McBean Parkway 

The Santa Clarita City Council approved Tuesday traffic changes to McBean Parkway that’s meant to improve circulation around the SCV’s only hospital.   The work is centered around McBean from the

A group of demonstrators gather at the corner of McBean Parkway and Valencia Boulevard in Valencia to support striking transit drivers on Wednesday morning, 110123. Dan Watson/The Signal

MV, drivers back at bargaining table 

After nearly two months of a strike, MV Transportation gave an offer that the members of Teamsters Union Local 572 are expected to consider Sunday, union officials confirmed late Friday