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Participants of the vision board activity quietly focused to intently create their vision board for 2024 at the Valencia Library on Saturday afternoon. Katherine Quezada/ The Signal

Visualizing Success 

Library’s ‘wellness vision board’ session helps participants to look ahead at 2024  The Valencia Library hosted a wellness vision board activity and participants creatively used magazines and other crafting tools

LASD releases homicide statistics for 2023 

The service area for the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station received reports of six criminal homicides in 2023, according to the data reported on the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s website.  

A consultant for Chiquita Canyon Landfill discusses work being done to try and lessen the smell of landfill gases and leachate. Courtesy screenshot

Chiquita Canyon agrees to more rules 

Landfill ordered to remove leachate more quickly, with more testing, more transparency in monitoring  After nearly seven more hours of discussion, Chiquita Canyon Landfill and the South Coast Air Quality

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Planning OKs car wash, Sand Canyon subdivision 

The city of Santa Clarita’s Planning Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a new automated car wash and a Sand Canyon subdivision.  The Mister Car Wash is an automated, self-service spot

Children in the audience sat with their parents and stuffed animals as they laughed at Arty Loon and his magic show on Jan. 16. Habeba Mostafa/ The Signal

Photos: stuffed animal sleepover

Children, parents and stuffed animals gathered to watch magician Arty Loon and have a stuffed animal sleepover at the Canyon Country Jo Anne Darcy Library on Tuesday.

30 years since 6.7 

Local leaders reflect on 30th anniversary of quake that struck Jan. 17, 1994  Jan. 17, 2024, marks 30 years to the day since the costliest earthquake in U.S. history, a

AQMD officials criticize landfill response 

Chiquita accused of releasing ‘misleading’ statements on potential health impacts   ]Representatives from the South Coast Air Quality Management District on Tuesday criticized Chiquita Canyon Landfill for its response to an

The local Los Angeles County Fire Department station participated in the Active Shooter Training Event at Castaic Highschool on Monday morning. Katherine Quezada/ The Signal

Drill: ‘Run. Hide. Fight.’ 

LASD hosts annual active shooter training at Castaic High  Castaic High School’s campus was empty for the holiday Monday except for first responders, campus officials, student volunteers and site administrators

Fire, HazMat called to landfill 

Fire Department: No public safety threat from equipment malfunction  L.A. County Fire Department officials responded to a report of a piece of smoldering equipment at Chiquita Canyon Landfill, but officials

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One killed in Newhall Ranch Road crash  

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies confirmed one person was killed following a single-vehicle collision early Monday morning on Newhall Ranch Road in Valencia.  Station officials received a report of