Dr. J. Michael McGrath, who led the Newhall School District as its superintendent from 1972 to 1997 and had an elementary school named for him following his retirement, died in his sleep Thursday night-Friday morning at his home in Valencia, according to friends of McGrath and a published notice from...

Luxor Capital Group, a private equity firm with components in New York and the Cayman Islands, has accumulated a 17.62-percent stake in Valencia developer Five Point Holdings LLC in the last two weeks, SEC records show. Fund manager Christian Leone, whose firms have more than $3 billion under management...

Remember Standing Rock? Remember how the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its allies from across the country and around the globe fought to keep the Dakota Access oil pipeline away from the tribe’s primary water intake on the Missouri River? Remember how they weren’t successful? Well, a funny thing...

Gary Condie, a man whose name has been synonymous with com­munity service in the Santa Clarita Valley for decades, died Wed­nesday afternoon, January 1, 2020. It was his 76th birthday. Condie loomed larger than life in local nonprofit circles. A certified public accountant by trade, he applied his...

Longtime Agua Dulce resident Doreetha S. Daniels, who became the oldest person ever to graduate from College of the Canyons in June 2015 at age 99, died Sunday. She was 103. Services are pending. Born April 25, 1916, in Hastings, Neb., Daniels graduated from high school in 1934 and came to Los Angeles...

The Live Oak Manor rock arch, a landmark for Sierra Highway motorists for nine decades, was moved Friday for the third time in history – only about 75 feet from its old location and still visible from the road. The arch was built in 1926 by John E. Olmstead, an eccentric desert rat who created a cactus...

Rep. Steve Knight Despite being labeled one of the most “vulnerable” Republican congressmen in the country, Steve Knight of Palmdale outpolled all four of his Democratic challengers, combined, by a commanding 53-47 margin in Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary election – virtually...

The Tesoro del Valle community in northern Saugus will grow by 820 homes if the county of Los Angeles approves the developer’s new plan. Tesoro was always envisioned to be built in phases. In 1999 the county approved the initial phase of 1,552 homes, but only 1,077 homes were actually built. Now, the...

Cemex filed a civil-rights lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court last month in hopes of blocking the city of Santa Clarita from annexing the land Cemex wants to mine. Without explaining in its complaint exactly how Cemex Inc. – a U.S. corporate division of a larger foreign multinational corporation...

Bobbie Trueblood Davis at an SCV Boys & Girls Club Auction at CalArts Before there was a city of Santa Clarita, there was Bobbie Trueblood Davis. She was a force unto her own. With her family by her side, “Bobbie” died Saturday, December 16, 2017, at home in Morro Bay, where she retired with...