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Approximately 350 special education students from seven local schools competed at the annual Hart Games track and field meet on Monday, March 18, 2024, at Valencia High School. Katherine Quezada/The Signal

13th annual Hart Games set for Monday 

News release  The annual Hart Games are scheduled to be held on Monday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Valencia High School, with competitions involving special education students from

Mycologist Bat Vardeh shows an attendee small mushrooms growing on a dead branch at Placerita Canyon Nature Center on Sunday afternoon, March 16, 2025 Maya Morales/The Signal

Looking for fun, guys: Head outside 

Nature center hosts mushroom foraging expedition  Karen Arechiga and her friends were among the large group of people who attended a mushroom foraging hike at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center

34% hike expected for Castaic student population 

District’s projected 667-student growth spurt a result of new development  The Castaic Union School District governing board at Thursday’s meeting approved a report of the next seven-year projections of its

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Shots fired at vehicle on SR 14  

California Highway Patrol officers are investigating a report of shots fired between two vehicles on the southbound State Route 14 freeway near Golden Valley Road on Tuesday afternoon.   Officer Carlos

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DA files 3 charges in fatal Newhall crash 

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed three felony charges against a man accused of driving under the influence in a fatal March 1 crash in Newhall.  Sean Alexander

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Newhall bar fight leads to arrest 

A little over two weeks after a man in his 80s was assaulted in Doc’s Inn, Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies announced an arrest in connection with their investigation.  

DA requests no bail for murder suspect 

The L.A. County District Attorney’s Office requested no bail for a 22-year-old Garden Grove man charged in a California Institute of the Arts student’s murder, sharing details from the brutal