A pedestrian suffered head trauma Friday night when struck by two or three cars on southbound Interstate 5, just north of Highway 126. No identifying characteristics (age, gender, residence) of the injured person have been released, nor is it known what he or she was doing on the freeway – although...

The good news: Forcible rape – which spiked locally in 2012 – and aggravated assaults are way down so far this year across the Santa Clarita Valley. The bad news: Burglaries and thefts are way up. As the year opened, Santa Clarita’s burglary rate jumped by 50.2 percent compared to January of 2012,...

Santa Clarita’s homeless population might be able to keep its wintertime home on Drayton Street for  three more years – as long as the property isn’t needed for access to a future trash-sorting facility. On Tuesday the Santa Clarita City Council will decide whether to approve a three-year...

Regal Entertainment Group earned $37.3 million in the final quarter of 2012 – nearly 10 times more than the $4 million it earned one year earlier – on revenues of $723.1 million (versus $613.9 million). Analysts knew it would be a better year-end for Regal, which operates operates 6,880 screens in...

The Castaic Lake Water Agency might jump on the growing “Just Say No” bandwagon next week when its Water Resources Committee debates the county’s planned storm water cleanup fee. If the committee votes to oppose it – as the CLWA staff is recommending – then the decision would go...

UPDATE by Allison Pari, AM-1220 KHTS: California Highway Patrol officials have identified the three people involved in the fatal collison on the Interstate 5 north near Templin Highway, early Sunday, Feb. 3. James Butterbaugh, 25, of Bakersfield was driving a 2007 Honda Pilot when it collided with a...

The full-year 2012 numbers are in, and for Santa Clarita Valley homeowners who were looking to make a little money on their major investment last year, they weren’t too swift. Single-family home prices rose by less than 1 percent over 2011 prices. The typical SCV house sold for $367,467 in 2012 versus...

Gov. Jerry Brown may have declared his problem with the federal government solved, but by shifting prisoners to county administration, he kicked the can downstairs. On Tuesday the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will again consider a $75 million, five-year deal to essentially rent space at a...

LASD Update, 6:58 p.m.: Sheriff’s Homicide detectives are continuing their investigation regarding the discovery of human remains found today, Saturday, January 19, 2013, in the area of Big Tujunga Canyon Road, mile marker 2.72, Angeles National Forest. Detectives confirmed that human remains...

Victim Teofilo “JoJo” Navales of Castaic The suspected assailant of a Castaic man and three other people outside a Northridge apartment complex in December was charged this week with four counts of murder and various weapons charges. According to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office,...