UPDATE Sunday, June 10: The Castaic fire that originated at the I-5 Freeway and Parker Road on Friday afternoon is now fully contained. Fire personnel will continue monitoring and completing mop-up work throughout the day Sunday. —— Two northbound lanes of the I-5 freeway have been reopened...

An arrest has been made at the Valencia home of a person suspected of setting off acid and dry ice bombs in the Santa Clarita area. Armed with a search warrant, detectives arrested James Sumner, 45, a male Caucasian, at his Valencia home on suspicion of setting the bombs and other felony counts related...

UPDATED 2:50 p.m. Wednesday The L.A. County Fire Department Hazmat Team determined that the white substance found inside a balloon at Canyon Country Park was flour and not a harmful material. All children detained as a precaution have been released and are currently returning to their school, Canyon...

Ray Bradbury in Pasadena for the landing of the first Mars Exploration Rover in January 2004 | Photo by Leon Worden Iconic science fiction author Ray Bradbury has died in Los Angeles. Bradbury’s work “Farenheit 451” was the subject of “The Big Read” that captivated Santa Clarita in April 2007,...

Voters will go to the polls Tuesday to pick the two candidates in the summer showdown that will culminate in one winner being elected on the first Tuesday in November. Those vying for the top two spots have had their auditions, been coached by the experts, faced the tabloids and gossiblogs and come out...

County Fire Chief Daryl Osby at Station 128 Even if there weren’t houses in view of the two new fire stations dedicated today, given the area’s propensity for wildfire, the stations’ placement couldn’t be better, nestled in the hills of Plum Canyon and Sand Canyon. In fact, the hillside just...

High school students with a flair for the dramatic are being sought to join the Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival Apprentice Company of this year’s Summer Theatre Festival. Building on the Apprentice Program from last year, the high school apprentices will perform the pre-show entertainment as...

It was a pretty simple task: draw something that depicted your favorite parts of the city. Paige Gilkerson, an eighth grader at Arroyo Seco Junior High started with Central Park, adding apple trees, a deputy sheriff badge, a jumping dog, fire hydrant and an oversized soccer ball – and two friends enjoying...

A Georgia man is behind bars for transporting marijuana after a traffic stop Tuesday. According to Lt. Mark Hershey of the Santa Clarita Valley sheriff’s station, the man got the attention of deputies as he traveled through Castaic on the I-5 freeway. When they stopped him, deputies noticed a strong...

A Canyon Country woman died Sunday morning as a result of a collision in which she was ejected from her vehicle on Soledad Canyon Road. Det. Mike Shapiro, a traffic investigator for the SCV Sheriff’s station, identified the victim Monday as 30-year-old Amber Popiel. Shapiro said the circumstances...