Politics/Govt

As the Santa Clarita City Council gets ready Tuesday night to appoint a fifth member to fill a vacancy, the attorney in a 2013 California Voting Rights Act lawsuit against

It’s show time. And it figures to be The Late-Late Show. The Santa Clarita City Council on Tuesday night holds a special session to fill, by appointment, its vacant seat

Rep. Steve Knight will keep his seat on three House committees, his office announced Friday. As the 115th Congress fires up, the Antelope Valley Republican, whose 25th Congressional District includes

It rained most of the day Thursday, and Thursday night at College of the Canyons, it rained City Council candidates. Fifty Santa Clarita residents have applied for the vacant seat

This was a deluge of democracy, civics on steroids. On Thursday, 14 Santa Clarita residents had filed applications with the City Clerk in hopes of getting appointed to the vacant

The Santa Clarita Valley Signal and College of the Canyons will host a public forum next week so Santa Clarita residents may meet and question their potential new council member.

Nine of them were candidates who finished down the ballot in the November election for Santa Clarita City Council. Others include a retired sheriff’s lieutenant … an ex-FBI agent …

With Steve Knight officially taking the oath of office for his second term in House of Representatives — contributing to the Republicans’ 241-194 majority — the 115th Congress convened on

Facing a Friday deadline to apply for the vacant Santa Clarita City Council seat, six residents had stepped up and filed as of Tuesday – four of them also-rans in

California voters passed Proposition 64 in November, legalizing the recreational use of marijuana. But that’s just the start – as the calendar turns to 2017, lots of pot-related issues are

Cameron Smyth had been mayor of Santa Clarita for just over two hours back on Dec. 13 when, during the public comments portion of the City Council meeting he was

At 34, Henry Stern is the youngest member of the California State Senate. He wouldn’t mind losing that title one day soon – to some up-and-comer from another district, of

It’s a bit like that old recruiting poster, the one with Uncle Sam pointing his finger and saying, “I want you / for U.S. Army.” In this case, it’s newly

Officials finalized a land deal this week with the city that will result in another new community park. Santa Clarita’s purchase of about 26 acres adjacent to the Via Princessa

“I’m pretty happy for being the low man on the totem pole to get the committees I got,’’ freshly minted state Sen. Scott Wilk was saying Wednesday, taking a few

After what some residents labeled foot-dragging, it appears the Santa Clarita City Council is going to take a symbolic but formal stand against bigotry and intolerance. In response to comments

In the end, Natalie Fortman said, Monday was a bittersweet day for her. The 20-year-old College of the Canyons sophomore from Valencia was one of the 55 California electors who