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The California Chamber of Commerce, a powerful business lobbying group, has honed a specific strategy with a high success rate — labeling bills it deems most burdensome “job-killers” and tracking them on an annual list. State Capitol photo by Rahul Lal, CalMatters

Lawmakers share stances on redistricting  

The Santa Clarita Valley’s state representatives shared their contrasting views Monday on a plan spearheaded by Gov. Gavin Newsom designed to make the overwhelmingly blue California even more so, impacting

Wiley Canyon project heads back to Planning with ADUs 

The four-member Santa Clarita Planning Commission is expected to hear another revision of the Wiley Canyon Mixed-Use Project on Tuesday.  After several meetings filled with neighboring residents’ complaints about density

Big rig goes over the side near Templin 

California Highway Patrol officers worked with Caltrans officials Monday morning to recover a big-rig truck that went over the side of Interstate 5 near Templin Highway around 8:15 a.m.  The

Families particpate in a drum circle during the Youth and Family Festival hosted by Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo’s office, D-Chatsworth in partnership with Strength United, a CSUN community agency on Aug. 16, 2025 at the Canyon Country Community Center, in Canyon Country, Calif. Katherine Quezada/The Signal

Schiavo hosts second annual Youth and Family Festival 

Rosa Gutierrez brought her four children to Saturday’s Youth and Family Festival hosted by Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, in partnership with Strength United, a California State University, Northridge, community agency.  

David March Park, 28310 North Via Joyce Drive, will temporarily close starting Monday, to complete planned upgrades. Photo courtesy of the city of Santa Clarita.

David March Park to close for upgrade work 

News release  David March Park, 28310 North Via Joyce Drive, will temporarily close starting Monday, to complete planned upgrades and the addition of new amenities, according to a news release

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China hits EU banks over Russian sanctions package 

By Lily Zhou Contributing Writer  Beijing targeted two Lithuanian banks on Wednesday in retaliation for the European Union’s latest Russian sanctions that affected two rural Chinese banks near the China-Russia border. 

Applications are in for Planning Commission seat 

Santa Clarita officials Friday released the names of 11 applicants for the “unplanned vacancy” on the city’s Planning Commission, which had an extended deadline of 5 p.m. Thursday for applications. 

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DUI suspect pleads not guilty to murder 

A 22-year-old Santa Clarita man pleaded not guilty to a second-degree murder charge Thursday at his arraignment.   Through an interpreter, prior to his preliminary hearing, Raul Rosales Ramirez turned down