Students in the William S. Hart High School District passed the California High School Exit Exam with a higher success rate than many of their peers around the county and the state, a source of pride for district officials. More than 92 percent of tenth graders in the William S. Hart Union High School...

Asian tiger mosquito If there’s ever been a reason to refresh pet water and clean out the pools – kiddie-size of otherwise – the soaring number of West Nile Virus cases is a good one. Officials from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention are calling the recent virus outbreak as the largest...

Matt Warner, a parolee at large wanted for questioning for grand theft auto led deputies on a short, but wild chase in Castaic Tuesday morning before jumping out of his car and over a wall, right into custody. According to Sgt. Daniel Stanley of the Santa Clarita Valley station, deputies spotted Warner,...

A Valencia woman was killed in a solo vehicle accident early Sunday morning in Valencia. According to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s station, the driver of a vehicle traveling northbound on McBean Parkway just south of Avenida Navarre at 1:30 a.m. lost control of the car and struck the center median,...

Photo by Wendy Langhans for KHTS The bird- and bat-counters have been busy this past week, discovering another 15 dead birds infected with West Nile Virus (WNV) and five more rabid bats in Los Angeles County. Two of those bats were found in the Santa Clarita Valley. One was found dead in a Saugus swimming...

An Ojai man was killed Monday when a piece of clothing got caught in the wheel of his Harley Davidson motorcycle and caused him to crash. Ronnie Gene Hagar, 59, was traveling northbound on the I-5, approaching Vista Del Lago Road at approximately 4:25 p.m. when an article of clothing secured to the sissy...

Friends gather at the crash site the next morning Two young men were arrested today and face murder charges in the death of Dakota Demott, who died in an alcohol-related crash on Sand Canyon Road on Jan. 10. Colt Doherty, 19, who was driving the car in which Demott was a passenger, and 20-year old Thomas...

Hundreds of people turned out to surprise a princess in their midst on Saturday morning and Her Highness could not have been more pleased. Friends of Melissa Grason, an 18-year old Valencia High student who has a rare, but serious cancer in its latter stages, wanted to give her a show of support she...

Friends of Sheila, a group of women inspired to help Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital, is pleased to announce that registration is open for the inaugural Sheila Stride 5K/10K run. The group’s mission is to ensure that the Imaging Center has the funding to stay at the cutting edge of technology. As...

In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s hot outside and forecasters don’t think it’s going to get much better this week. Hot temperatures – in the triple digits – are expected across the inland portions of Southwest California this week, due to a strong high pressure and a weak onshore flow. The...