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Widespread outage hits apps and websites using AWS  

By Tom Ozimek Contributing Writer  A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services early Monday caused major disruptions across dozens of popular platforms, apps and games — including Snapchat, Zoom, Coinbase and Fortnite — as one of the world’s most

The property lines of homes burned during the Palisades Fire still sit visible in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 9, 2025. Photo by John Fredricks.

Grand jury indicts Palisades Fire suspect 

News release   A federal grand jury has indicted a former resident of the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles who is charged with starting in January 2025 what eventually became the Palisades

City approves 3-year plan for fiber-optic service 

The Santa Clarita City Council approved a potential 50-year, nonexclusive deal with Aspire Broadband expected to bring fiber-optic internet speeds to the Santa Clarita Valley over the next three years.  

2-vehicle crash results in fire, 2 transported 

Two people were transported to the hospital after a two-vehicle collision resulted in one vehicle catching fire and the other having significant damage on Camp Plenty Road and Soledad Canyon

Crime Filler

One arrested following attempted burglary  

A man was detained following an attempted burglary in Newhall in the early hours of Saturday morning, according to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station.   Deputies responded to a 9-1-1

Guests engage in a Zumba class to support the Santa Clarita Sister Cities projects on Oct. 11 at The Centre. Katherine Quezada/The Signal

Sister Cities hosts Zumba fundraiser 

What better way to help a cause than to burn some calories?   The Santa Clarita Sister Cities held its annual Zumba marathon titled “Black and White Zumbathon for a Cause”

City reviewing 7-home lot split on Daisy Meadow  

Santa Clarita planners are reviewing an application for a seven-home subdivision in the northeastern border of the city, near Agua Dulce, according to records obtained by The Signal.  “This project

City employees and Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station deputies responded to a downed tree that blocked the southbound lanes of McBean Parkway, after Summerhill Lane, late Wednesday morning on June 11, 2025. Habeba Mostafa/ The Signal

Saugus residents approve new landscaping fees 

By a relatively slim margin, Saugus residents in three different landscape maintenance districts approved a city request that they raise their landscaping fees so the cost aligns with the requested

Santa Clarita explains curfew crackdown 

Santa Clarita City Manager Ken Striplin said Tuesday a recent crackdown on the city’s curfew law, which “has been on the books for a couple of decades,” has come from

FILE PHOTO A Los Angeles County Fire Department truck moves quickly to scene.

Commercial fire reported in Newhall 

An HVAC system failure prompted firefighters to respond to reports of a commercial fire in Newhall on Friday afternoon, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department official.   At 1:46