Air quality monitors at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill are expected to be up and running by late November or early December, according to Los Angeles County planning officials. Details of the plan to monitor air quality at the landfill near Val Verde were unveiled Wednesday when members of the landfill’s...

The man who died Thursday after being shot by a local sheriff’s deputy has been identified as 35-year-old Alvaro Duran Venegas. Sarah Ardalani, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner-Coroner, said Venegas died “from gunshot wounds of the torso.” “(His) manner of...

As end-of-summer temperatures hover near triple digits, state officials announced just in time for people seeking to cool off at Castaic Lake that the caution about algae has been lifted. On Monday, officials at the Department of Water Resources removed a caution advisory that had been in effect since...

Search-and-rescue workers combed the rugged terrain near Lang Station on Wednesday, where an unoccupied car was hit by a train the night before, looking for the car’s owner, Nakita Marie Monkhouse, who was reported missing early Wednesday. Monkhouse, 31, a Canyon Country resident who suffers from...

A burning big rig sparked a small brush fire mid-afternoon Tuesday near Weldon Canyon and where Interstate 5 connects with Highway 14, in the Newhall Pass. Shortly after 3:45 p.m., a semi caught fire on the I-5 overpass near Weldon Canyon and by 4 p.m. firefighters with the Los Angeles County Fire Department...

A former employee of The Master’s University was charged Tuesday with four counts of secretly videotaping or photographing the body or undergarments of four unsuspecting women. Prosecutors with the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office filed a four-page misdemeanor complaint against Sebastian...

Some residents in the Saugus neighborhood near Willow Court were awakened early Saturday morning to the sounds of a naked man allegedly screaming and banging on doors. About 2:20 a.m. Saturday, deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station responded to reports of an indecent exposure call...

All but three of the 19 DUI arrests made over the long weekend in the Santa Clarita Valley involved motorists who were previously convicted of driving while intoxicated. From Friday to Monday, officers with the Newhall-area Office of the California Highway Patrol and deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley...

A year after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the case of a former Disney executive charged with engaging in lewd acts with a child, a brand new jury is scheduled to hear closing arguments in the man’s retrial on the same charges. Jonathan Blake Heely, 60, of Santa Clarita, was held to answer Feb....

Firefighters saved a hilltop house from burning down Thursday as fire from a fully engulfed nearby motorhome spread to the brush and swept up the hillside. The fire broke out about 12:10 p.m, on a rural property off of Bouquet Canyon Road near Texas Canyon Road. “We saved the house but not the mobile...