[KHTS] – Summer in Santa Clarita feels a bit different for Savannah Fulkerson, an incoming sixth grader at Mountainview Elementary who was diagnosed with a disease that makes her essentially allergic to the sun. The 11-year-old has erythropoietic protoporphyria, also known as EPP, a disease that...

A man and a woman have been sentenced for their part in a series of muggings in Newhall in 2013, according to the L.A. County District Attorney’s office. Hector Cordova, 28, and Lorena Sanchez, 34, were sentenced Thursday to 19 years and 7 years in prison, respectively, said Ricardo Santiago,...

Photo: Heather Harbin/KHTS A body was found in a car in Canyon Country at about 2:20 p.m. Friday, according to Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials. Homicide detectives were en route to the scene as of 5:40 p.m., said Sheriff’s Station officials. The body was found near the intersection...

The annual 4th of July Pancake Breakfast put on by the Santa Clarita Valley Rotary Club will be collecting money a local charity that recently lost property in a fire. For the first time, there will be a tip jar where people can donate money to The Triumph Foundation, said Dave Reeves from Reeves complete...

[KHTS] – A Valencia man was arrested Tuesday evening when Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s deputies found him with 3-1/2 gallons of liquid ecstasy, according to Sheriff’s Station officials. It was a routine traffic stop in the Santa Clarita Valley where Sheriff’s officials found 32-year-old...

Calls to poison centers about synthetic marijuana shot up 330 percent from January to April of this year, according to a new government report. With names like Spice, K2, No More Mr. Nice Guy, and hundreds of others, the drugs often called “synthetic marijuana” are actually totally different from...

Staff, clients and residents are upset about the upcoming closure of the Santa Clarita Adult Day Health Center. “My mom has gone there for almost 21 years,” said Cindy Howard, a local resident who depends on the care the day center provides. “We depend on it so I can work and she needs the social...

[KHTS] – Members of Santa Clarita’s Just Serve Mormon Helping Hands are set to help beautify a section of Whites Canyon Road on Saturday, officials said Friday. The volunteers will be removing trash, pulling weeds, placing new bark on all parkways and repairing block walls on upper Whites Canyon...

Santa Clarita Valley is on pace to see double the drug overdoes from 2014 if the current pace continues, according to Sheriff’s Station officials. This year, there have been three confirmed drug overdoses and four more pending confirmation from the Coroner’s Office, Wachsmuth said. Last year there...

[KHTS] – It was Young Author’s Day at Highlands Elementary school Friday, an annual event that’s taken place for almost 25 years, according to school officials. “Every student in the school has written a book over the last three or four months,” said Gail Knipp, Highlands Elementary school...