Although not an agenda item the nettlesome Historic Preservation Ordinance dominated discussion at Tuesday night’s city council meeting when Council Member Laurene Weste brought the topic up during the Committee Reports/Council Member Comments portion of the executive meeting. “I would ask the city...

With gas prices high and getting higher, Santa Clarita Mayor Marsha McLean believes the city should do everything they can to provide commuters with alternative transportation opportunities. “I have to tell you every time I need to go to downtown L.A. I will take the train if I possible can,” said...

Chiquita's Jesus Vega runs the new power plant. Flames used to rise from the stacks at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill off of Highway 126. Decomposing waste naturally generates methane gas. Waste Connections, who operates the landfill, had been sucking the methane gas from underground and burning it. No...

California is tops in the United States for solar jobs creation according to a Cornell University study as part of the Solar Foundation’s 2011 Solar Jobs Census. The top 10 states created 61,700 solar jobs and of those California can claim 25,575 – a whopping 41 percent. Dr. Dena Maloney, Vice President,...

WATCH THE PROGRAM => http://www.scvtv.com/html/wsh102011careeroptions1btv.html   Believing there are more career options than what teenagers are usually told, the U.S. Army is partnering with the William S. Hart School District, College of the Canyons and local elected officials to present the...

Crowds make Joshua Murphy nervous. Kids, too. So nervous, it was debilitating. “For the first year after coming back from combat, I could barely leave the house. With the flashbacks and nightmares. I still haven’t slept a full night’s sleep because of the nightmares,” Murphy said. Murphy served...

The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station is tops in the county for reducing overall violent crimes so far this year. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the SCV’s 35.2-percent drop in violent crime mirrors overall declines in the sheriff’s coverage area...

Eight local high school seniors are in the running for the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program. Fewer than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors qualify as semifinalists, which include the highest-scoring entrants in each state. “Out of 1.5 million students who take the qualifying test every year...

Erin Walgamuth received a letter last week from Medi-Cal stating that Dec. 1, all Adult Day Care Facilities in California are closing. For six hours a day, Walgamuth’s 30 year old daughter with special needs is able to enjoy activities at the Santa Clarita Adult Day Care center. That allows her daughter...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will hold  a special session with Gov. Jerry Brown this afternoon to discuss the state’s “prison realignment” plans under Assembly Bill 109. Seven thousand to 8,000 state prisoners will be reassigned to county facilities beginning Oct. 1,...