An 18-year-old Newhall man was killed Wednesday afternoon when he lost control of his car and collided with an oncoming vehicle on San Francisquito Canyon Road in Saugus. According to a CHP report, Andrew A. Reynoso was traveling southbound at about 55mph when his 2001 Toyota Corolla began to drift onto...

Tony Strickland Voters in California’s 25th Congressional District made history Tuesday when they gave the go-ahead to Republicans Tony Strickland and Steve Knight. It’s the first time two members of the same party are lined up to fight each other for the seat in the general election. It’s a quirk...

A newly rediscovered 1928 film with an “SCV connection” made its world premiere Saturday night in Los Angeles – 86 years and one day after it made its original world premiere. The film is the Edwin Carewe version of “Ramona” starring Dolores Del Rio, and it had been lost to time until a print...

What evil lurks in the SCV Historical Society’s Newhall Ranch House? For years, believers have talked about a mysterious “blue lady” named Martha and maybe an 8-year-old boy named Timothy in an upstairs corner of the 150-year-old ranch house in the Heritage Junction section of William S. Hart Park....

More SCV homeowners are listing their property for sale as home values rise, but relatively few homes are changing hands as sellers hold out for even higher prices. That’s the word from the Southland Regional Association of Realtors, which issued the February home-sales data Wednesday. February saw...

Mexican free-tailed bat (the kind we have in SCV) | Courtesy Evelyne Vandersande Blame the unseasonably warm weather. Blame the spirit of Bela Lugosi. Just don’t blame us. Rabies season got off to an early start this year. Los Angeles County’s first rabid bat of 2014 turned up in February in...

Acton is a 130-year-old frontier mining town – its first permanent resident settled there in the 1880s – but its historical society is brand new. How new is it? The Acton Historical Society is so new, you can get in on the ground floor. The organization will hold its first public gathering Tuesday,...

The same day its worldwide box-office receipts topped $1 billion, “Frozen” – co-directed by Jennifer Lee and 1978 CalArts grad Chris Buck – added an Oscar to its trophy collection Sunday. Two months ago it won the 2014 Golden Globe Award for best animated feature film. Weekend estimates were...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider adopting major changes to the Agua Dulce Community Standards District on Tuesday – changes that have been in the works since 2010. The new zoning calls for minimum 2-acre lot sizes for new subdivisions with a minimum depth of 165 feet and a...

Limited supply and a lack of bargain properties drove median Santa Clarita Valley home prices higher in January. The typical single-family home sold for $432,900 in January, compared to $360,000 during each of the two previous Januaries. Meanwhile, the typical condominium sold for $250,000, up from $206,700...