City approves year-round homeless shelter on Drayton Street
Bridge to Home is one step closer to opening its homeless shelter all year. At the city council meeting Tuesday, council members voted unanimously to turn over ownership of the…
Bridge to Home is one step closer to opening its homeless shelter all year. At the city council meeting Tuesday, council members voted unanimously to turn over ownership of the…
Somehow I missed the city’s Ad Hoc Committee on Homelessness meeting, which was held Monday and covered in a front page article in Tuesday’s Signal. The article, titled “Group talks…
Last week, our column focused on some statistics and causes for homelessness in Los Angeles. This week, let’s take some time to look at our own neighborhood - specifically, the…
For the past month, I have had the opportunity to ride the train from Newhall to Burbank. Besides being a great way to travel, the train provides a chance to…
It is time for the taxpayers of this state to rise up and say "enough." Several times last year in comments to The Signal I warned that every measure coming…
After finding insufficient evidence to proceed with prosecution, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office tossed out the child endangerment case against a husband a wife found in the…
High school students in the Santa Clarita Valley are working together to stop homelessness in the area through their newly-formed cooperative social action project. Named SCV Urge, the group of…
A cyclist arrested two months ago in connection with an apparent case of road rage - or, specifically, driveway rage - for allegedly throwing something at a motorist’s car has…
A single mother of six left homeless Monday after fire gutted her apartment is desperately looking for a place to live. “We’ve been lucky,” said Tara Ardila, who survived the…
When Jeremiah Brinegar and Ashley (Melanson) Brinegar were handcuffed in front of their four preschool children in the Santa Clara River wash and arrested on suspicion of child endangerment they…
A homeless man was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of operating a bicycle at night without lights. The man, identified by deputies of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station as a…
With the narrow uncertified passage of Measure H, we must be prepared for the increase in sales tax monies that might soon be swept into Los Angeles County coffers for…
Measure H, the homeless initiative, passed early Wednesday morning with just over the two-thirds majority voted needed to do so. It was the only item on the ballot in Santa…
We’re generally a no-more-taxes institution, and with Measure H on the March ballot we see yet another tax – yet another way to take money away from people who have…
About 60 people showed up at the College of the Canyons Thursday night to hear the pros and cons of a multi-million dollar plan to end homelessness in Los Angeles…
A homeless woman found dead in the backseat of her car parked in a parking lot on Carl Boyer Drive Tuesday morning was not murdered and did not take her…
A woman, believed homeless and living in her car, was found dead in the backseat of a car parked in a parking lot on Carl Boyer Drive Tuesday morning. Her…
On Tuesday night, thousands of volunteers throughout Los Angeles covered the streets, underpasses, riverbeds and washes of the county to count the number of individuals experiencing homelessness in the area.…
Local sheriff’s deputies who removed stolen laptops and cell phones from the backpack of a homeless woman arrested on the weekend would like theft victims to give them a call.…
Everyone wants to talk about Hunter Greene’s arm, but right now the Stevenson Ranch resident is more concerned with feet. The flame-throwing righty is set to pass out donated socks…