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Public Health: New COVID variant emerges

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has announced that a new variant of COVID-19 has emerged.   Health officials are saying the new strain, XBB.1.5, overtook the previously dominate

Man killed in Acton hit-and-run identified

The motorcyclist killed in a hit-and-run on Tuesday night on Soledad Canyon Road near Acton has been identified by the Los Angeles County Coroner-Medical Examiner’s office as 58-year-old Jeff Engels.  

Longtime COC board member dies at age 72

Michele Jenkins, a longtime education advocate in the Santa Clarita Valley, died Monday. She was 72.  Having served on the College of the Canyons governing board since 1984, Jenkins was

The Force is strong at Vasquez Rocks

Star Wars fans race for chance to win coveted lightsaber  At the end of a dusty road flanked by Vasquez Rocks, four stormtroopers guarded an imperial box containing the coveted

Woman arrested on suspicion of multiple felonies

A 54-year-old Huntington Beach resident was arrested on suspicion of multiple felonies, including possession of methamphetamine, on Monday, according to Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials.   According to Deputy Natalia

Press release

Barger launches re-election campaign

News release   Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger announced the launch of her re-election campaign for 5th District supervisor – a position she has held since her initial election

Press release

COC educator receives international fellowship

News release  Out of hundreds of applications from educators, Christine Hirst Bernhardt of College of the Canyons has been selected by the nonprofit organization Ecology Project International to participate in