UPDATE: [Victim Identified]   Coroner’s and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Homicide investigators responded Sunday morning to a report of a dead body in Newhall. A corner’s spokesman said the body of an adult male was found in the creekbed behind Keep It Self Storage on Railroad Avenue (the...

Dr. Mary Louise Contini Gordon, author of a newly published biography of Santa Clarita Valley Indian elder Charlie Cooke, will be signing books Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Antelope Valley Indian Museum, and Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Vasquez Rocks Interpretive Center in Agua Dulce. Both events start at 11...

Santa Clarita Valley home prices  returned to pre-recession levels in August as the typical previously owned single-family home changed hands for $450,000. The figure was last seen in August 2008. Condominium prices slipped slightly to $295,000 in August from their 5-year high of $300,000 set in July. More...

While the county and state’s month-to-month unemployment rates inched up in August, Santa Clarita’s unemployment rate tumbled to 6.3 percent from 6.6 percent in July and 6.9 percent one year earlier. The biggest month-to-month job gains across Los Angeles County came in the private education...

Click map to enlarge Eleven of the 26 rabid bats found across Los Angeles County so far in 2013 have turned up in the Santa Clarita Valley. With less than 3 percent of the county’s human population, having 42 percent of the county’s rabies cases seems a bit out of whack. But we do, and it’s...

Berry Petroleum Co., owner of the Placerita oil field off of Sierra Highway – and significantly larger fields in Kern County, West Texas, Utah and Colorado – posted adjusted second-quarter profits of $41 million (73 cents per diluted share), dead-even with the year-ago figure and up markedly from...

The county will gain 528 inmate beds by transfering 528 of the “low-risk” prisoners it got from the state to the county’s five fire camps, if the Board of Supervisors approves a proposal Tuesday from Sheriff Lee Baca and county CAO William Fujioka. Inmates serve on fire-fighting camp crews...

The county of Los Angeles will expand the definition of “dangerous dog” by including attacks on livestock, if the supervisors approve a proposal Tuesday from Marcia Mayeda, director of the Department of Animal Care and Control. “(A)n attempted attack or an attack on livestock … is often a precursor...

The typical single-family home in Santa Clarita resold for $430,000 in July – the highest level since the start of the recession in the fourth quarter of 2008 – while the typical condominium changed hands for a pre-recession price of $300,000. “Overall, it’s a fine housing market, with solid...

Santa Clarita drivers might still be below average, but believe it or not, they’re getting better. Sure, Soledad Canyon Road might still turn into a racetrack at certain times of the day, and Sand Canyon Road is awaiting some “traffic calming” measures that the city is working on now, after...