Linda Storli Santa Clarita Valley voters made a change Tuesday when they retired longtime Hart School Board member Gloria Mercado-Fortine and replaced her with first-time challenger Linda Storli-Koontz. With all precincts reporting, Storli-Koontz garnered 1,193 votes (56.65 percent) to Mercado-Fortine’s...

It took a bit longer than the “new normal” to get here this season, but West Nile virus turned up recently in the Santa Clarita Valley, according to the latest data from the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District. West Nile virus is endemic in Los Angeles County, meaning it’s here to...

Dr. Marc Winger The Glendale Unified School District is getting two for the price of about one-half. Marc Winger, who retired earlier this year after more than 17 years at the helm of the Newhall School District, was hired last week as one of two interim superintendents in Glendale, where school board...

The College of the Canyons Board of Trustees will consider three different voting-area maps as it moves forward with plans to split the community college district into five “trustee areas” for purposes of voting. At present, the five trustees hold numbered seats but are elected at-large by all voters...

Valencia-based biomed MannKind Corp. has issued its third round of pink slips this year amid lackluster sales of its new inhalable insulin drug, Afrezza. The firm cut back on staffing both in Valencia and in Danbury, Conn., where its manufacturing plant is located, according to the News-Times of Danbury. MannKind...

Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is asking his fellow supervisors for their vote to change the name of Peace Valley Road in Gorman to Ralphs Ranch Road in honor of the famous family that owned Gorman for 100 years beginning in the late 1800s. According to a motion by Antonovich, “Members of the unincorporated...

The next name you’re going to come to know out of the Disney-Pixar animation school (California Institute of the Arts) is Peter Sohn, director of “The Good Dinosaur,” which releases Nov. 25. According to Pixar, “’The Good Dinosaur’ asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever...

World Rabies Day seems like a good time to remind Santa Clarita Valley residents not to touch a bat. Sounds weird, but we’ve got a lot of rabid bats around here. Fully half of the rabid bats found so far this year in L.A. County have been found in the Santa Clarita Valley, even though our valley...

The governing board of the Saugus Union School District will hold a public hearing Tuesday, Sept. 29, on the plan to split the district into five parts for purpose of school board elections. Heretofore, the district has been served by a five-member board elected by all voters in the school district....

A small brush fire broke out Monday at about 3:30 p.m. on the west side of Interstate 5 in the Newhall Pass next to the Oak Tree Gun Club, where dozens of people were hunkered down. L.A. County Fire Department hand crews and helicopters made quick work of the blaze, holding it to the freeway embankment....