U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer The issue of the Cemex mine looming over Soledad Canyon residents is something that frustrates Senator Barbara Boxer – and what’s one of the most irritating elements of the issue is the lack of support she’s received from local Congressman Buck McKeon. “Let me be blunt,”...

Boeing's Thomas Armfield accepts a plaque from Emily Wong for the company's donation. The Santa Clarita Youth Orchestra Foundation is more than $8,000 richer thanks to the efforts of Emily Wong, who appealed to Boeing employees on behalf of the musicians. Wong, who serves as the Director of Development...

The entire length of Vasquez Canyon Road between Bouquet Canyon Road to Sierra Highway is closed for a resurfacing project that began Monday night, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. County road crews are resurfacing the road over a three-week period that started April 14....

Deputies arrested a Saugus man during a probation check Wednesday morning and removed a sawed-off shotgun from the premises. Lt. Mark Hershey said that, at 9:45 a.m., the Community Intervention Team conducting the check took Christopher Schienle, 43, a convicted felon, into custody at the Garzota Drive...

Deputies and Search and Rescue Volunteers spent most of the night looking for Castaic resident Ivy Degeorge, who had been reported missing after leaving a pair of friends hiking in the Sloan Canyon area, but she was found safe and sound at a friend’s home Wednesday morning. Not so good for one of her...

If you thought you saw Woody, Buzz and Jessie at the mall on Saturday, you weren’t dreaming. The “Toy Story” characters were in the neighborhood to celebrate the ribbon cutting at the newest Disney Store, which moved from inside the mall out to the Patios at the Westfield Valencia Town Center. “We...

An elderly man was found dead alongside an overturned 2003 Pontiac Grand Prix on Escondido Canyon Road Monday morning. California Highway Patrol Officer John Lutz said the Newhall CHP office was notified of a single vehicle rollover collision at 9:02 a.m. Los Angeles County Fire personnel on the scene...

Cowboy Couture, the Western-inspired, big-city, cowboy-infused premiere fashion event of the year will kick off the 2012 Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival in downtown Old Town Newhall on Thursday, April 19. Main Street will be alive with Western activities, chuckwagon-themed food trucks, Western music and...

There might be a mountain lion on the prowl at the top of Whites Canyon in Canyon Country. Owners of Koda, an 80-pound border collie, returned to their Hawks Ridge Drive home Wednesday night around 8:45 p.m. and found their pet bloodied inside the house near the pet door. “He has a gigantic hole in...

Photos courtesy of Six Flags Magic Mountain A helicopter hovering overhead often brings a sense of doom and today’s was no different, as a whirlybird defied gravity to lift a beam of steel to the tower that will soon be part of the world’s tallest vertical drop on “Lex Luthor: Drop Of Doom,”...