Environment

The Santa Clarita City Council has approved the purchase of approximately 242 acres for the open space preservation district in the city’s ongoing effort to preserve open space lands and complete a greenbelt around the perimeter of the Santa Clarita Valley. Screenshot from City of Santa Clarita website.

City Council approves open space land purchase 

The Santa Clarita City Council has approved the purchase of approximately 242 acres for the open space preservation district in the city’s ongoing effort to preserve open space lands and

Robert Grzesiak, docent naturalist at Placerita Canyon Nature Center, holds a large bundle of thistle weeds he removed from the area on Thursday morning at Placerita Canyon Nature Center on Aug. 22, 2024. Trisha Anas/ The Signal.

Native SCV plants and those who fight for them 

Along the Placerita Canyon Nature Center trail, bushes of light brown buckwheat plants populate the dirt and the smell of vinegar plants wafts through the air, attracting bees, butterflies and

Sheep and goats graze in a new initative to eliminate brudh fires during fire season at the L.A. County Summer Fire Safety Press Conference at Towsley Canyon Park on Friday, June 21. Habeba Mostafa/ The Signal

City, county host summer fire safety event  

The city of Santa Clarita, in partnership with the L.A. County Fire Department, held a  Summer Fire Safety Press Conference on Friday morning aimed to educate residents about the mitigation