A housing development plan for Canyon Country, introduced in 2006 when the housing industry entered the Great Recession, was dusted off this week and given a one-year extension by regional planners. On Tuesday, planners gave the Santa Barbara-based developer Vanguard Planning Inc. another year to pursue...

After one and a half hours inside a crumpled car, the last of two people trapped was freed from the wreckage. “The third and final patient was just extricated a minute ago,” Sky Cornell, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department said at 2:05 p.m. The crash happened around 12:35 p.m., when...

Los Angeles County supervisors, citing the same number of worrisome scientific studies that convinced them in March to place a 30-day ban on the use of glyphosate, have banned the controversial herbicide from being used by county work crews anywhere in the county. Commonly referred to as Roundup, glyphosate...

After almost seven years in business, the Newhall Pharmacy on Main Street has had its pharmacy license pulled by state authorities who found the drug store, among other violations, selling heroin-like opioid drugs to people without a prescription. Victor Law, president of the Board of Pharmacy for the...

Medical examiners identified the body of a man found deceased at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center on Wednesday. John Porter, 63, of Santa Clarita, was found dead in a vehicle at the nature center, according to Lt. Larry Dietz of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. “Our detectives are barely...

Two traffic collisions in the Grapevine involving at least five vehicles about the same time early Monday morning scattered debris across all lanes and prompted a lengthy cleanup. Despite the number of vehicles, no one was reportedly injured. Shortly after 4:45 a.m., emergency response crews responded...

State water regulators gave local sanitation officials three more years to carry out their plan to reduce the amount of chloride that ends up in the Santa Clara River. On Thursday, officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District met with members of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control...

Local water heads sitting pretty on the heels of a rainy winter and news of a snowpack so deep in the Sierra Nevada it still hasn’t melted got a crash course on preparing for times not so wet and lush. Members of the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency board were briefed April 30 on new conservation...

Downed power lines sparked a small fire in Val Verde Monday morning, burning about an acre of brush before it was extinguished, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Fire Department said. The fire began shortly after 7 a.m. on San Martinez Grande Canyon Road, near Highway 126, prompting a response...

Mitchell Community Elementary School was placed under a self-initiated “soft lockdown” Thursday morning. The temporary lockdown happened about 10:30 a.m. at Mitchell Community Elementary School on Goodvale Road, in Canyon Country. “We’re good,” a receptionist at the school said shortly after...