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Councilmember Jason Gibbs is sworn into the District 3 seat by Santa Clarita City Clerk Mary Cusick during the Santa Clarita City Council meeting at City Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024. Habeba Mostafa/ The Signal

Gibbs launches campaign for Congress  

July 2, 2025 10:49 am

By Signal Staff  Santa Clarita City Council member and former Mayor Jason Gibbs has announced his candidacy for Congress in California’s 27th Congressional District.   “An engineer, community leader and

The Ralphs on McBean Parkway in Valencia. Signal file photo.

Grocery workers authorize possible strike 

June 13, 2025 1:14 pm

Compiled from news releases and staff reports  United Food and Commercial Workers local unions representing 45,000 grocery store workers have voted in favor of authorizing their bargaining team to call

L.A. County Fire Department firefighters spray water on a free-standing structure that was on fire at the 28200 block of Avenue Stanford on Monday afternoon, June 9, 2025. Maya Morales/The Signal

Fire breaks out in industrial center

June 9, 2025 3:06 pm

By Kamryn Martell and Maya Morales Signal Staff Writers A fire broke out at a commercial property on Huntington Lane and Avenue Stanford on Monday afternoon, according to Saadullah Sheikh,

A mountain lion takes a nap on a tree in a residential area of Valencia, Calif. on Friday May 16, 2025. Katherine Quezada/The Signal

Mountain lion spotted in tree near homes

May 16, 2025 7:00 pm

By Kamryn Martell and Katherine Quezada Dozens of people slowly gathered near Cortina Drive and Gravino Road in Valencia on Friday.  But what was catching the attention of this growing

Tom Williams, owner-operator of the new Chick-fil-A on The Old Road. Photo by Kelly Ingram (Nishimoto)/The Signal.

Chick-fil-A opening new location on The Old Road 

May 7, 2025 5:16 pm

By Kelly Ingram (Nishimoto) Signal Staff Writer  Chick-fil-A is expanding its footprint in the Santa Clarita Valley with the grand opening of a new drive-thru-focused location near Interstate 5 and Magic

Mimi’s Café in Valencia, a longtime local fixture, is being torn down to make way for a new Yard House restaurant. Photo by Kelly Ingram (Nishimoto)/The Signal.

Mimi’s: the end of an era  

April 28, 2025 4:37 pm

By Kelly Ingram (Nishimoto) Signal Staff Writer   Mimi’s Café in Valencia, a longtime local fixture, is being torn down to make way for a new Yard House restaurant.   Located

Shown above is a portion of the front page of The Signal on April 8, 1970, reporting on a shootout that killed four young California Highway Patrol officers from the CHP’s Newhall office. It became known as “The Newhall Incident” and resulted in new training methods and tools for high-risk law enforcement stops across the nation.  

55 Years Ago: The Newhall Incident 

April 5, 2025 2:44 am

On April 6, 1970, four young California Highway Patrol officers lost their lives in a four-and-a-half-minute gun battle that left four families without their husbands and fathers, and a mourning

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department seal. File Photo

No foul play suspected in death of 2-year-old 

March 30, 2025 5:03 pm

A detective with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homicide Bureau said no foul play is suspected after a preliminary investigation into the death of a 2-year-old Thursday morning in

The “Father of the Los Angeles Water System,” William Mulholland (left), chief engineer-general manager of the Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply, and his assistant H.A. Van Norman inspect remnants of the St. Francis Dam after its catastrophic collapse on March 12, 1928. Photo by George Watson/Courtesy Watson Family Photographic Archive

97th anniversary: St. Francis Dam disaster 

March 12, 2025 12:16 am

By Signal Staff  The failure of the St. Francis Dam at midnight, March 12, 1928, killed more than 400 people, leveled farms and homesteads, destroyed property and livestock and changed