[DWR] – The Department of Water Resources urged people Friday to stay out of the water at Pyramid Lake in Los Angeles County until further notice and avoid eating fish from the lake due to the presence of blue-green algae (cyanobacteria). Danger signs have been posted around the lake, and Emigrant...

Firefighters battled a brushfire in La Salle and Wiley canyons in the Calgrove Boulevard area Saturday that grew to 175 acres by early evening. Two hundred structures were threatened at one point, but none was in danger by 8 p.m. when containment was reported at 30 percent. Dubbed the South Fire, it...

PHOTO: Supervisor Kathryn Barger is joined on stage by 26-year-old Amanda Hernandez, who shared her experiences as a veteran of Los Angeles County’s foster child program. Today, Barger said, there are 36,000 children in the county’s foster program. Of those, one-third are under 5 –...

Veterans of the Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival stage were honored Saturday night as the city celebrated the festival’s silver anniversary at William S. Hart Park in Newhall. Highlight of the evening was the presentation of branding irons bearing Hart’s monogram to eight performers, some of whom have...

UPDATE: Services for Betty Seldner will be held Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, at 10 a.m. at Eternal Valley Memorial Park, 23287 N. Sierra Hwy., Newhall. A Celebration of Life will follow at 1 p.m. at the Santa Clarita Elks Lodge, 17766 Sierra Hwy., Canyon Country. Original Post: Betty Jane Seldner, the Santa...

A Sheriff’s deputy was rushed to Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital Tuesday night after being shot by an assailant in the 21300 block of Bottle Tree Lane in Newhall. According to a tweet from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the unidentified deputy is expected to survive. The shooting...

Traveling through our desert, one often sees roadside markers that are typically constructed of concrete or rocks with a metal plaque on the top or front. Some are marked with the letters “ECV” on the back or on the ground. If you take the time to stop and read these plaques, you will discover that...

MannKind Corp. is moving its corporate headquarters to Westlake Village, after nearly 17 years in Valencia, according to the latest quarterly report it filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The biomedical corporation closed the sale of it Mann Biomedical Park property at the Rye Canyon Loop...

WEDS June 28, Noon – The latest update from the L.A. County Fire Department puts the Placerita Fire at 760 acres, and it’s 95 percent contained. MON Noon – Officials report the Placerita Fire is now 57 percent contained, still at 870 acres. “We’ve got a handle...

National monuments are protected areas that have been set aside through the use of the 1906 Antiquities Act by a sitting president. There are currently 170 national monuments in the United States. The Antiquities Act was signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906. This act gives...