
Plan announced to swap noisy gas lawn mowers
State officials monitoring air pollution have a plan in place to swap noisy gas-emitting lawn mowers used by professional landscapers with quieter, no-emission electric mowers. The South Coast Air Quality

State officials monitoring air pollution have a plan in place to swap noisy gas-emitting lawn mowers used by professional landscapers with quieter, no-emission electric mowers. The South Coast Air Quality

Conservation plans to augment the Santa Clarita Valley water supply with recycled water are not affected by Monday’s decision by SCV sewage treatment officials to scuttle their recycled water project.

Facing the threat of stiff fines from state water officials several years ago, Santa Clarita Valley sewage treatment officials approved a multi-million-dollar plan to desalinate water sent downstream from the

SCV Water officials who voted in May for no increases to the property tax rate remained true to that pledge when they reviewed state water costs and revisited rate-setting recently.

Members of the SCV Water Agency board, who found themselves saying goodbye to two of their fellow directors this past year, have called a special meeting Tuesday to talk about
SCV Water officials are blazing a course hammered out during a recent two-day, strategy-setting retreat. Transparent and “plain language” communication with customers were among the goals identified by SCV Water’s

For the second straight year, developers wanting to build 70 homes on The Old Road, near Parker Road, in Castaic, are appealing to regional planners for a one-year time extension.

On hearing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s support for a one-tunnel — and not a two-tunnel — system for getting Northern California water to Southern California, the head of the SCV Water

Public health officials issued a cold weather alert on Monday after the National Weather Service issued a frost advisory for parts of Los Angeles County, including the Santa Clarita Valley.

President Bill Cooper and Vice President Maria Gutzeit were re-elected Tuesday night, and joining them in the winner’s circle was director Gary Martin, elected the board’s second vice president. The

The plan to build nearly 500 homes on Hasley Canyon Road near Del Valle Road is scheduled to be reviewed Tuesday by regional planners. The Los Angeles County Department of

As Santa Clarita Valley residents emerge from the second straight week of rain, local water officials have made a reasonable request to limit outdoor water use and to curtail lawn-watering.

After Sanitation District officials got down to the business of hiring and assigning work to construct a plant that would reduce the amount of chloride ending up in the Santa

It’s been cold, wet and, in some places, snowy, but the silver lining, so to speak, is that the back-to-back storms have left a snowpack deep enough to provide ample

After two decades of wrangling over ways to reduce the amount of salty chloride ending up in the Santa Clara River, sanitation officials agreed Thursday to pay an Irvine company

By Jim Holt Signal Senior Staff Writer County officials paying close attention to what gets dumped, and how much gets dumped, at Chiquita Canyon Landfill are getting some help monitoring

Long-standing local water board member Jacque McMillan is resigning and, in so doing, giving her Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency peers an opportunity to decide whether to reduce the size

Local water officials hunkered down for two days of reflection this past weekend, reviewing what they did right this past year and finding ways to do things better. The two-day

Developers of Tapia Ranch, who want to build more than 400 homes between Castaic and Tesoro del Valle, were sent back to the drawing board Thursday by regional planners who

Developers wanting to build homes west of The Old Road and south of Sagecrest Circle presented to regional planners Thursday amendments to their housing project that reflect fewer homes and