The Santa Clarita City Council is expected to approve a deal with the county Tuesday to build a new, two-story, 44,339-square-foot sheriff station on Golden Valley Road, roughly double the size of the current facility in Valencia, which it would replace. The new station would be erected on the 6.5-acre...

As expected, Houston-based LINN Energy LLC, along with affiliate LinnCo and their subsidiary Berry Petroleum Co., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week. One of the 20 largest U.S. oil and gas producers, the companies carry $9.3 billion in debt. While oil prices have rebounded somewhat...

Let’s see. He was the 1993 recipient of the Silver Spur award from College of the Canyons. He was named “Board Member of the Decade” by the SCV Boys and Girls Club. He was the 2012 Santa Clarita Valley Man of the Year. Now, Tom Dierckman is going home to Indiana – at least long enough to be inducted...

Sport Chalet is closing all stores and has stopped online sales, the retail sporting goods chain announced on its website Saturday. The company, founded in La Canada-Flintridge in 1959, operates approximately 40 retail stores in California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah, including one in the Valencia Marketplace. The...

  The Santa Clarita Valley’s first rabid bat of 2016 was found this month on the ground outside of a residential garage in Castaic, according to the county Health Department officials who track such things. While the SCV was home to more than half of the rabid bats identified in Los Angeles...

A Superior Court judge has invalidated the environmental documents and overturned all approvals relating to the removal of chloride from the Santa Clara River. On Wednesday, Judge James C. Chalfant granted a judgment in favor of the citizens’ group Affordable Clean Water Alliance, which sued the SCV...

Sunday night was a repeat performance for 1990 CalArts grad Pete Docter, who took home the Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film at the 88th annual Academy Awards ceremony in Hollywood. Producer Jonas Rivera (left) and director Pete Docter accept the Best Animated Feature Film award for “Inside...

Duane Harte The Santa Clarita City Council is scheduled to consider a successor to Parks Commission Chairman Duane Harte when the council meets Tuesday. Harte, a longtime city commissioner and community volunteer, suffered a fatal heart attack Nov. 23. He was 68. Eight Santa Clarita residents applied...

LINN Energy LLC, the nose-diving owner of the company that operates the Placerita Oil Field, took another hit Friday when another analyst downgraded its shares to “sell” and said bankruptcy is right around the corner. “We believe the company will likely file for Chapter 11 after the next round...

CEO Mark E. Ellis will receive up to $6.9 million this year in cash bonuses, and other executives will receive millions if they stay through the coming restructuring of their oil company. Floundering over the last two years as world oil prices have plummeted, late last week LINN Energy, the Houston-based...