Politics/Govt

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

City thanks Schiavo for mobile command unit funds 

The city of Santa Clarita celebrated Thursday the delivery of a long-awaited resource intended to help the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department with its local emergency response: a mobile command unit. 

City hosts annual State of the City  

The city celebrated the progress of its five-year Santa Clarita 2025 plan Thursday as part of its annual State of the City celebration, which highlighted city programs aimed at helping

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City recommends ‘No’ vote on Prop. 50 

Santa Clarita City Council members shared several reasons Tuesday why they were unanimously recommending a “No” vote on Proposition 50 in November’s single-issue statewide election.  Proposition 50, the Election Rigging

Politics and government

Newsom signs trio of Schiavo bills 

News release  Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law three bills authored by Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, “that will bring critical relief and accountability to California communities,” said a news

Voters drop their ballots in a drop box at the Valencia Library in Valencia on Tuesday, 060722. Dan Watson/The Signal

LA County ballots mailed to voters 

News release   Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan announced that vote by mail ballots are being mailed to all registered voters for the Nov. 4 Statewide Special