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Oktoberfest is considered the world’s largest folk festival. While festivals are held around the world, Munich is its birthplace. The fest runs traditionally for 16-18 days from mid-September to the first Sunday in October. ©Adobestock

Prost! It’s Oktoberfest Time 

Who doesn’t enjoy a fun time with beer, sausages, pretzels and brass oompah bands? If you’ve been waiting all year to unleash your inner Polka dancer, the wait is almost over, many Oktoberfests will bring the party to the Southland

Sheriff's deputies investigate the scene where a person was killed in a shooting Monday night near the intersection of Newhall Avenue and Lyons Avenue. Staff photo

Newhall murder trial moved to next month 

The trial dates have shifted yet again for the two men charged in a shooting death that happened June 17, 2024, outside Valencia Liquor in Newhall.  Omar Garcia Ramirez and

Marc Manfro received The Medal of Distinguished Duty by the former Mayor of New York City David Dinkins in 1990, as seen in his home office in Castaic on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Habeba Mostafa/ The Signal

Wounds turn into scars  

Marc and Theresa Manfro reflect on surviving Sept. 11 attacks after 25 years  As Marc Manfro prepared to speak at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Friday evening in Simi Valley, reflecting on the Sept. 11

A somber remembrance of 9/11 

 Trinity Academy hosts ceremony on 25th anniversary   As the nation paused to remember the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the 25th anniversary of that fateful day, Trinity Classical Academy continued its tradition of somber remembrance with

Drama behind the cameras continues  

A group protesting local traffic-surveillance cameras, DeFlock SCV, returned to Santa Clarita City Hall for Tuesday’s meeting, determined to get the City Council’s attention.  This time, it did.  At the Aug. 24

Photo courtesy of Eleanor Gray Photography. 

‘Heart of the West’ saddles up for 30th year 

Community members far and wide saddled up for Carousel Ranch’s annual “Heart of the West” fundraising event on Aug. 29 – celebrating 30 years of the fun-filled fundraiser.   Taylor Adachi, executive director at Carousel Ranch, said it

Photos: ‘Beyond the Horizon’

The city of Santa Clarita presented an opening reception of Karen Nguyen’s “Beyond the Horizon: An Exploration of Earth, Ocean and Space” on Wednesday at the Canyon Country Community Center.

The Central Park River of Lights, shown here during a Fourth of July display. Photo courtesy of city of Santa Clarita.

‘River of Lights’ to display 9/11 tribute 

News release  Friday will mark 25 years since one of the darkest days in the nation’s history, and to commemorate the quarter-century anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,

City approves grants for Bouquet Canyon businesses 

The Santa Clarita City Council offered a helping hand and a mea culpa on Tuesday to nearly three dozen Bouquet Canyon business owners hurt by a road closure approved in 2020, which cut off significant traffic

Murder suspect involved in big rig pursuit 

In the early hours of Wednesday morning, California Highway Patrol Newhall-area officers were notified by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department about a man who was wanted on suspicion of murder after