Live coverage of multiple wildfires burning in Southern California right now
We are into the seventh day of a swarm of wildfires across Southern California. Containment numbers grew overnight, but high winds and red-flag warnings are expected to continue through Sunday. We have...
View ArticleStandoff ends in Newhall home near Rye fire evacuation area
A man barricaded himself in a Newhall home for six hours Wednesday before he surrendered to a sheriff’s SWAT team. Deputies evacuated nearby residents during the standoff. Sgt. Wayne Waterman said the...
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Rye fire in Santa Clarita area holding at 96 percent containment
A fire crew from Huntington Beach and a bull dozer work to put out a stubborn hot-spot that burned on prison property at Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic on Wednesday in the wake of Tuesday’s Rye...
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Brush fire burns 2 acres in Santa Clarita; forward progress stopped
A brush fire broke out on Wednesday shortly after 4 p.m. in Santa Clarita, threatening homes and prompting a rapid and heavy response from firefighters. Ground crews, along with four Los Angeles county...
View ArticleMan sentenced to more than 28 years in prison for shooting that left man...
SAN FERNANDO >> A man who fled to New York after a 2015 shooting at a Santa Clarita apartment complex that left a young man dead and the defendant’s own girlfriend injured was sentenced Wednesday...
View ArticleSanta Clarita man pleads not guilty to UC San Diego student’s killing
SAN FERNANDO >> A Santa Clarita man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murdering his boyfriend, who was a UC San Diego student. Christian Alexander Ortiz, 22, is charged with killing Brayan “Brian”...
View ArticleFormer sheriff’s recruit charged with theft from ATM
SAN FERNANDO >> A former Los Angeles County sheriff’s recruit who worked as a Brinks security guard pleaded not guilty Thursday to stealing tens of thousands of dollars he was supposed to deliver...
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Santa Clarita Valley breaks ground on a new, larger LA County Sheriff’s station
A wooden sign stood firmly on a dirt hill on Golden Valley Road. Behind it stood law enforcement vehicles, horses, and even a helicopter. They were there to break ground on a new, larger Santa Clarita...
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The nearly 500 Californians killed in the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster might...
Phillip Cesena transferred to San Franciscquito Canyon in February 1928 to work as a ranch hand, mucking out stalls and exercising ranch animals. Phillip Cesena, 15, showing off his trick riding he...
View ArticleGOP seeks a new candidate to challenge LA-area Assemblywoman Christy Smith
The Los Angeles area’s tightest race for the California Assembly in each of the past two elections took place in the same suburban district. Republican Danta Acosta defeated Democrat Christy Smith by...
View ArticlePassenger who died in alleged DUI crash in Santa Clarita ID’d
SANTA CLARITA — Excessive speed might have caused a suspected drunk driver to lose control of his sedan Saturday on the 5 Freeway in Santa Clarita and skid down a dirt embankment into some truck lanes,...
View ArticleMap shows where the Martindale fire is burning near Santa Clarita
A brush fire blackened 200 acres in about 30 minutes Monday afternoon, Sept. 28, 2020 and quickly threatened about a dozen structures in theCastaic Canyons area near Santa Clarita. The Martindale Fire...
View ArticleHart Union High School District board votes to retire Indians mascot by 2025
The William S. Hart Union HIgh School District board voted 4-1 to replace the high school’s Indians mascot by 2025 at its meeting Wednesday, July 14. Members of the Santa Clarita-area community, Hart...
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Pandemic adds to first-day-of-school jitters in Hart Union High School District
Golden Valley High School Principal Sal Frias welcomes students to school on Tuesday. It was the first day of school in the Hart Union High School District, which has nine high schools and six middle...
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West Ranch, Castaic high school cheer teams cope with COVID-19 outbreaks
As high school students in the Santa Clarita Valley prepare for the first week of school, members of the cheer teams at Castaic and West Ranch in William S. Hart Union High School District are dealing...
View ArticleSanta Clarita school board members debate Newsom’s teachers vaccination mandate
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s move to make California the first state in the nation to require all teachers and school staff to get vaccinated or undergo weekly COVID-19 testing spurred debate among school...
View ArticleWilliam S. Hart district schools respond to positive coronavirus tests at 9...
Officials responded as at least nine schools reported positive COVID-19 tests on campus as students in the William S. Hart Union High School District returned to school this week. Arroyo Seco Junior...
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Hart district students prepare to make contact with astronauts on...
Julie Huffman is the science currciculum specialist for the William S. Hart Union High School District. (William S. Hart Union High School District) Astronaut Thomas Pesquet will participate in an...
View Article74 students in quarantine after reports of COVID-19 at Saugus Union School...
A little more than a week after the first day of school in the Saugus Union School District, 74 students from three classes are in quarantine after positive COVID-19 cases were reported. Colleen...
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Hart Union students reach out to connect with astronauts on International...
La Mesa Junior High Principal Michele Krantz counted down to the moment two astronauts on the International Space Station connected with her students in the multipurpose room on campus Tuesday morning....
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