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Vice President JD Vance speaks at the East Palestine Fire Department as he visits East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, 2025. Pool photo by Rebecca Droke/AFP via Getty Images

Vance visits East Palestine to commemorate 2 years since derailment 

By Jeff Louderback Contributing Writer  EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Promising better communication and transparency and assuring residents that they are not forgotten, Vice President JD Vance visited East Palestine two years after a Norfolk Southern train derailed and spilled toxic chemicals into the air and ground.  Although officials from federal and state agencies have repeatedly said tests show that the air

Press release

Free tire collection event set for Aug. 27

News release  The city of Santa Clarita welcomes residents to dispose of their used tires at the free tire collection event on Saturday, Aug. 27, from 9 a.m. to 1

Politics and government

Supervisors take step to ban gas-powered leaf blowers

News release   The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors moved toward banning gas-powered leaf blowers in unincorporated communities and incentivizing the adoption of alternative equipment, a move that aims

Eco-Chicos help clean up riverbed

Sixty members of Canyon High School’s Eco-Chicos Environmental Club teamed up with the Santa Clarita chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby last month to remove the equivalent of 89 large garbage