Santa Ana winds swept into the Santa Clarita Valley Thursday morning, sending at least two trees onto local roadways as Southern California Edison enacted a series of intentional power outages to reduce fire danger. Public works crews with the city of Santa Clarita responded to a large tree that crashed...

Prosecutors assigned to review deputy-involved shooting incidents announced Wednesday that the four Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who fired their weapons at Monolito Guerra almost two years ago did so lawfully and in self-defense. The Justice System Integrity Division of the Los Angeles County...

A transient arrested for lewd behavior five times in the last three years was again arrested Monday on suspicion of lewd behavior. Harry Joshua Hirst, 47, of Newhall, was arrested by deputies of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station Monday morning after they received reports of a man with his...

Heavy smoke seen coming from a vacant home near Bouquet Canyon Park prompted a swift response by firefighters early Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after 1:00 p.m., firefighters with the Los Angeles County Fire Department received reports of fire at a house on the 28000 block of Cero Drive, north of Alaminos...

A former Canyon Country woman seriously injured in a traffic collision two years ago has been awarded a court settlement of $6.126 million. Chung Wu Hsu, 62, who has since moved from Canyon Country, suffered severe and traumatic injuries after her vehicle was broadsided by a box truck whose driver ran...

First responders converged on the Westfield Valencia Town Center mall mid-afternoon Monday after hearing a local sheriff’s deputy was hurt in a fight. After responding to the emergency call, however, they discovered a civilian, not a deputy, had been hurt in the altercation. Shortly after 3:30 p.m.,...

Santa Clarita Valley’s top cop keeps on the wall by his desk a laminated poster the size of a dinner placemat that bears the face of every person who has died of a drug overdose in the SCV. “It’s to remind me of the battle we’re in,” Capt. Robert Lewis of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s...

A 50-mile police chase that began in Universal City early Friday morning ended north of Pyramid Lake in a two-hour standoff with the alleged driver. California Highway Patrol officers began following a white Toyota Tacoma about 4:30 a.m. on the northbound lanes of the 101 freeway, CHP Officer Josh Greengard...

A boy was detained Wednesday afternoon by deputies on suspicion of threatening his family with a knife in Valencia. Around 1 p.m. Wednesday, deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station responded to an area immediately north of Copper Hill Drive, between Calex Drive and San Francisquito...

Members of the local sanitation board approved $160,000 worth of extra work pursuing their four-year chloride compliance plan. On Monday, members of the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District board voted in favor of a recommendation to pay for the extra work. Construction of an ultraviolet disinfection...