Video image by Daniel Leary, CougarNews.com For the fall 2011 season, Ice Station Valencia presents a unique activity for locals. Starting Sept. 9, the Ice Station began offering broomball. Some might not know it, but broomball is an entertaining and quite competitive sport. It is pretty similar to ice...

Stu Blair of Principal Financial Group will be the featured presenter at the September edition of the Lunch & Learn Series hosted by the SCV Chamber of Commerce. Blair will discuss “Big Challenges for Small Businesses” with strategies for business succession planning; recruiting, retaining and...

In this episode: Sheriff homicide investigators are awaiting a coroner’s report before deciding whether Karla Brada’s death was accidental or homicide. The Saugus woman’s body was found in her Plum Canyon home Sept. 1. Also: Supermarket management and union representatives reach a tentative...

Michael Endersbe, a nationally recognized college admissions expert, will be at four high schools this week to discuss college planning with interested students and parents. Hosted by the William S. Hart Union High School District, Endersbe will discuss the challenges of applying to college in a competitive...

Diana Shaw The College of the Canyons Faculty Association Representative Council has endorsed Diana Shaw and Scott Wilk for seats on the Board of Trustees. Seats 2, 4 and 5 are up for election in November. The faculty association represents 184 full-time faculty members at COC. Wilk, who is being opposed...

Six union locals representing 62,000 grocery workers in Southern California reached agreement Monday with the owners of Albertsons, Ralphs and Vons over wages and benefits, averting a threatened strike. Local 770 of the United Food and Commercial Workers – the SCV’s “local local”...

The SCV Arthritis, Lupus and Fibromyalgia Support Group will meet Sept. 25 and Oct. 23 – and every fourth Sunday of the month – at 2 p.m. at Marie Callender’s restaurant, 27630 The Old Road. The group is for individuals with any form of arthritis, lupus, fibromyalgia and other autoimmune...

Lennar Corp.’s third-quarter profits fell 31 percent to $20.7 million (11 cents per share) from $30 million (16 cents) a year ago, the company reported before Monday’s opening bell on Wall Street. Revenues slipped 1 percent to $820.2 million but beat analysts’ expectations of $794.4...

Photo: Brian Cypher/Defenders of Wildlife The California Department of Transportation will observe the third week in September as “Watch Out for Wildlife Awareness Week,” which strives to reduce the number of wildlife-related injuries and vehicle passenger fatalities on the state’s highways. The...

Talks continued into the late morning Monday as the Southland grocery union’s Sunday-night strike deadline came and went. “Grocery workers will remain at the bargaining table as long as we feel progress is being made towards a fair, equitable agreement,” UFCW Local 770 told its members...