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Relationship between Weste, Lite goes south; planning commissioner calls it political retribution Santa Clarita Mayor Pro Tem Laurene Weste made an unusual request of her colleagues during council member comments Tuesday: She asked the City Council to agendize the removal of her planning commissioner, Denise Lite. The request came toward the beginning of the meeting, after the course of her
News release L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger successfully introduced a motion Tuesday to support H.R. 1179, the Chiquita Canyon Tax Relief Act, introduced by Rep. George Whitesides, D-Ague Dulce.
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer President Donald Trump vowed to place “large-scale fines” on California after a transgender athlete competed in a girls’ high school track and field event and won
By Joseph Lord and Jackson Richman Contributing Writer With the “One Big Beautiful Bill” pending before the Senate, several provisions may be stripped out in what is known as a “Byrd
By Chris Summers Contributing Writer Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service says it has severely damaged the Kerch Bridge, which links Russia with Crimea. On its Telegram channel, the service said: “The SBU
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer The administrator of the Social Security Administration said he plans to transform how the agency handles phone calls and other systems within the agency by the
By Jack Phillips Contributing Writer Tech billionaire Elon Musk said he believes that the Department of Government Efficiency, which he led until last week, became a “whipping boy” in Washington and
By Jacob Burg Contributing Writer Ukraine launched a massive drone strike on Sunday, hitting multiple Russian airbases, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. It was Ukraine’s first strike more than
More than three dozen residents, upset by Chiquita Canyon Landfill’s repeated claims of progress amid their ongoing claims of health problems in lawsuits seeking compensation for the problems caused by
By Catherine Yang Contributing Writer President Donald Trump said on Friday that China has “totally violated” its agreement with the United States after the two nations put a pause on escalating
By Chris Summers Contributing Writer Israel has accepted a new U.S. proposal for a temporary cease-fire with Hamas in Gaza, the White House said on Thursday. White House press secretary Karoline
By Jacob Burg Contributing Writer A pilot flying near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport reported seeing an “unknown phenomenon” strobing and moving as if running on a racetrack hundreds of feet
News release Los Angeles County filed a motion for preliminary injunction Thursday in its ongoing lawsuit against Chiquita Canyon Landfill, marking a significant legal step toward holding the landfill
By Zachary Stieber Contributing Writer The Department of Health and Human Services has canceled funding for Moderna’s vaccine against avian influenza, also known as the bird flu, the department confirmed on
By Jackson Richman, Katabella Roberts Contributing Writers The White House and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., responded on Wednesday to Department of Government Efficiency leader Elon Musk objecting to the major
News release The state Assembly on Thursday passed two bills authored by Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, in response to the ongoing public health crisis at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill: the
By Tom Ozimek Contributing Writer The Department of Justice has launched a civil rights investigation into California’s enforcement of a state law that allows male students who identify as female to
News release L.A. County Board of Supervisors Chair Kathryn Barger served in a lead role last week at a bipartisan congressional roundtable discussion on wildfire disaster recovery, hosted in the
The Santa Clarita City Council on Tuesday authorized a rate increase for its commercial and residential waste-management services, which is associated with cost increases due to the closure of Chiquita
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