Politics/Govt

Courts filler

Judge orders Trump administration to restart asylum claims 

By Zachary Stieber Contributing Writer  The Trump administration must restart processing claims of asylum, a federal judge ruled on Friday.  Officials must also resume adjudicating requests for immigration benefits such as work permits from

Politics and government

Schiavo’s AI workforce protection bill passes Assembly  

News release  As California continues to see artificial intelligence-driven layoffs from major corporations like Meta, Oracle and UPS, Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, announced that her bill, the AI Deployment & Workforce Displacement Assessment

Two other congressional races take shape 

Two congressional district races with relatively small portions of the Santa Clarita Valley, and an Assembly district race, all had two candidates who had started to separate themselves from the pack in

A local look at California’s early Primary results

The Santa Clarita Valley’s 27th Congressional District remained closely contested in the early results Tuesday, while the 40th Assembly District’s incumbent held a big lead in her re-election bid.  The first returns were released shortly

National News

NASA, Blue Origin to rebuild after explosion 

By T.J. Muscaro Contributing Writer  When Blue Origin’s rocket exploded on its Florida launch pad last week, it brought the launch capabilities of a chosen workhorse for NASA’s Moon Base missions to

A SpaceX rocket carrying Starlink satellites into orbit was seen from the Santa Clarita Valley in a Valentine's Day launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara. The Falcon 9 rocket was launched at about 6 p.m.

US awards SpaceX $4.16B for Golden Dome satellites 

By Naveen Athrappully Contributing Writer  The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX $4.16 billion to build a network of satellites that will form one of the layers of the Trump administration’s Golden Dome for America