Politics/Govt

Santa Clarita City Hall

Council members OK 5% salary increase  

Santa Clarita City Council members approved a 5% pay hike for themselves at Tuesday’s council meeting.  The raise was authorized for next year after the second reading and approval of

A map of the Wiley Canyon project area. Courtesy

Residents sound off on Wiley Canyon plans 

Santa Clarita planners received a litany of concerns from residents over a proposal years in the making for a 31-acre property in Wiley Canyon, alongside Interstate 5, between Hawkbryn Avenue

SCV Water, Whittaker argue over cleanup 

Nearly 40 years after The Whittaker Corp. stopped activities that contaminated the Santa Clarita Valley’s groundwater supply, a three-judge panel for the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments

Politics and government

Schiavo wage theft bill clears Labor Committee

News release  Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo’s bill targeting wage theft, Assembly Bill 2135, has moved past its first hurdle, passing out of the Labor Committee.   AB 2135 is aimed at

Politics and government

Garcia announces bipartisan ANCHOR Act on cybersecurity

News release  Reps. Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, and Haley Stevens, D-Michigan, as well as Sens. Alex Padilla, D-California, and Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, have introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to facilitate cybersecurity

A sign points to the entrance of Chiquita Canyon Landfill in Castaic. Dan Watson/ The Signal

Landfill responds to concerns about benefit fund 

An attorney for Waste Connections, which operates Chiquita Canyon Landfill, issued a statement Friday that indicated the company was updating the language on its website in response to concerns mentioned