A Homicide Bureau official confirmed Thursday a person found dead Wednesday on Sierra Highway is being investigated as a suspected suicide. Medical examiners identified the decedent as Jose Aparicio Cordova,
A brush fire, dubbed the “Hawk Fire,” broke out in Acton at the 35900 block of Trenmar Drive on Thursday afternoon and grew quickly, burning an estimated 400 acres and
The King Fire erupted early Thursday near Gorman and was burning south toward Castaic as the morning commute got under way. The fast-moving fire was first reported on the 45100
Santa Clarita Mayor Bill Miranda has called for a controversial Main Street condo plan to head back to the Planning Commission, after city staff said the plan was going to
A local environmentalist group Tuesday announced its appeal of the Department of Regional Planning’s approval of more than 500 homes in the unincorporated west side of the Santa Clarita Valley.
Members of the community can get catalytic converters on their vehicles etched with a traceable identification number by law enforcement between 8 a.m. and noon on Saturday at Santa Clarita
Deputy Richard Wyatt testified that he remembered hearing his partner telling somebody to drop a knife, before he saw Carl Wayne Pruett emerge from behind some bushes swinging a large
A Santa Clarita man charged with four counts of sexually assaulting two underage female relatives was denied bail Friday. Victor Alvarez, 31, of Canyon Country, remained in custody Wednesday at
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials Wednesday confirmed a dead body was found on Sierra Highway, about 1 mile south of Needham Ranch Parkway, in Newhall. L.A. County Fire Department
Los Angeles County officials Tuesday announced the first progress on a yearslong multimillion-dollar effort to restore Bouquet Canyon Creek, a watershed eyed as being in need of work since a
Residents gathered for the fifth installment of the city of Santa Clarita’s Concerts in the Park series on Saturday at Central Park. “Locked Out of Heaven,” a Bruno Mars tribute
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge issued orders Monday for two witnesses to testify in a Newhall double-murder case, under threat of arrest, seeking information families have waited on
Twelve structures, including two homes, have been destroyed as a result of the Canyon Fire which is nearing 100% containment as of Tuesday afternoon, according to fire officials. The blaze,
On Nov. 22, 1952, a military transport plane carrying 52 people crashed into an Alaskan glacier during a storm with reported 80-mph winds and low visibility. Among those killed was
A federal judge Friday denied a Santa Clarita man’s last chance to avoid federal custody for a misdemeanor conviction, rejecting a motion to dismiss his conviction. The ruling puts the
Detectives with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station are searching for a grand theft suspect who stole over $950 worth of cigarettes from a local business in Canyon Country twice
A former assemblyman and longtime local philanthropist, Hank Arklin, died Aug. 1. He was 97. Arklin was born July 17, 1928, in Albany, California, north of Berkeley. Arklin was a
A pursuit began in the Antelope Valley after two armed men carjacked a person’s vehicle and fled the scene, according to a Nixle Alert from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s
Perry Smith A Newhall man pleaded no contest to allegations he was one of three suspects in the shooting of a Los Angeles Police Department officer at his Valencia home
Recent changes to the state’s conflict-of-interest law for politicians and two recent recusals prompted questions on what’s in place to keep pay-to-play from creeping into Santa Clarita policy-making and who’s