Jim Bizzelle, a former Newhall Land executive, has been hired by the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce as Interim President and CEO while the organization looks for a permanent replacement for Terri Crain, who stepped down from the position last month. Bizzelle was most recently senior vice president...

Class sizes in the William S.Hart Union High School District will be smaller for the 2016-17 school year — reduced by an average of one student per class, according to district officials. Read the full story [here].

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to lower the speed limit on a stretch of Bouquet Canyon Road where two teenagers were killed in separate traffic collisions in the last nine months. As a result of the vote, the speed limit is set to drop from 55 miles per hour to 45 miles per...

Nelly Babinski-Dhont, 50, of Saugus, turned herself in at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station after a warrant was issued for her arrest in connection with a fatal hit-and-run collision last June in Canyon Country that claimed the life of motorcyclist Leo Castillo. Read the full story [here].

A man was arrested Monday night after allegedly setting fire to a shed and Southern California Edison power box near Soledad Canyon Road in Canyon Country. “The initial report was trash on fire,” said Humberto Agurcia, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department. “When our first unit...

The two men who died in a fatal car crash earlier this week on Sierra Highway have been identified by the Los Angeles County Coroner. Noah David Murphy, 24, and Moises Hernandez, 33, of Santa Clarita, are the two men killed after their car hit a power pole on Sierra Highway Tuesday morning, according...

At their Tuesday meeting, the Santa Clarita City Council unanimously approved a temporary moratorium designed to stop certain types of businesses from setting up shop in Old Town Newhall. The urgency ordinance was put before the council, requesting permission to allow the city manager’s office to...

Equipment repairs and maintenance on Castaic Lake earlier this month have left Pyramid Lake temporarily closed to boaters due to low water levels. “Our water level (is) 16-feet low,” said Bobilyn Bowman, an employee at the lake. “We are not accepting boats right now.” The family of water suppliers,...

Only one of three Santa Clarita residents charged with claiming to be part of a state-sanctioned police agency, known as the Masonic Fraternal Police Department, is set to go to trial after one of the suspects died and another had their case dismissed, officials said Tuesday. Read the full story [here].

Publisher Doug Sutton The Santa Clarita Gazette & Free Classifieds has officially been declared a “newspaper of general circulation” by a judge following a lengthy legal dispute with The Signal newspaper. Read the story [here].