Santa Clarita News

LeeAnn Holmes' battle against the state budget cuts isn't just about the recent reductions to her disabled son's benefits.

After a unanimous vote the planning commission approved the permit to build the Sheraton on the corner of McBean and Valencia Blvd.A The hotel will be similar in size to the Hyatt and also have a restaurant as well as plenty of meeting and banquet rooms.

He could hear their popping, crackling and booming all around him. He could smell their sulfuric stench out his window.

A Los Angeles Police Department gang detective who was a witness in the 1991 Rodney King beating fatally shot herself in the head in the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station lobby Monday night, officials confirmed Tuesday.

Christ Lutheran Church is hosting a Comedy Night fundraiser to benefit the Santa Clarita Emergency Winter Shelter on Sunday, Aug.

The city of Santa Clarita incorporated in 1987 with an estimated population within the city limits of about 110,000. Twenty-two years on, the population stands at around 180,000 - not counting similar growth in the county areas of the SCV.

Fast Facts: Lane closures Monday, July 6, through Thursday, July 9 n Sierra Highway On-Ramp to Northbound SR-14 Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. n One lane of the Southbound SR-14 Connector to Southbound I-5 Time: 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. n Southbound SR-14 Collector Road to Southbound I-5 Time: 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. n Southbound SR-14 Connector to Southbound I-5 Time: ...

It's time for bunting and flags, for pancake breakfasts and 5K runs, for fireworks and an old-fashioned parade as the Santa Clarita Valley celebrates what may be its favorite holiday - Independence Day - with festivities all day long Saturday.

Santa Clarita Transit is now offering rides to Santa Monica via the 2009 Summer Beach Bus.

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For everyone who was whining about the June gloom. Summer has arrived. Are you happy now? Kudos to Santa Clarita Ballet The Santa Clarita Ballet always offers enchanting programs, but I really appreciated the depth of the recent program offered at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center on the Valencia campus of College of the Canyons.

Three juveniles were detained Friday for questioning in connection with a five-acre blaze in Valencia.

Is your kid sitting on the couch all summer.A Maybe it's time for him to get his football on.A My daughter has been to training with Jibri Hodge for agility and we were very happy with his classes.A For more information you can go to his website , but here is a run down.

Firefighters in Santa Clarita are fighting a three-acre brush fire in a wash about two miles east of the Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park, Los Angeles County fire officials said.

Brian Charles' story in Tuesday's Signal mentioning a "revenue neutral" payment of perhaps $3 million annually, perhaps in perpetuity - in exchange for westside unincorporated communities being allowed to have some measure of local government - leaves me outraged.

The long work of revamping the Interstate 5/Magic Mountain Parkway interchange is nearing an end.

Fast Facts: The Church of Hope Pantry n The pantry and thrift shop is located in the Soledad Shopping Center at 18364 Soledad Canyon Road just east of Sierra Highway.

Several years ago I attended the visitation for the deceased father-in-law of a co-worker. While the family seemed fairly desolate concerning the death, my Midwestern stoicism and logic found little to connote tragedy.

Assemblyman Cameron Smyth, R-Santa Clarita, released the following statement after the passage of the Conference Committee budget proposal: "The budget proposal passed by the Conference Committee on Tuesday is a feeble attempt at a real solution to California's fiscal crisis.

Sheriff's deputies arrested a Canyon Country couple Monday on suspicion of shoplifting from the Santa Clarita Valley's Target stores.