“They haven’t signed anything yet,” said Jason Crawford, regarding the addition of a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant in Canyon County. “It’s close and they are definitely interested.” According to Crawford – the city of Santa Clarita’s economic development manager – there...

The City of Santa Clarita’s planning department will be updating the Planning Commission on the Unified Development Code and the Lyons Avenue Corridor Plan at a study session Tuesday, June 19, at 3:45 p.m. at the Old Orchard Park Community Room, located at 25032 Avenida Rotella. James Chow, Associate...

Double-stabbing suspect Raymundo Soto,35, will be held to answer on four counts including the attempted murder of Daniel Muir in his Canyon Country home. During a preliminary hearing Monday June 11 at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles, the prosecution was required...

The State of California Employment Development Department is reporting 6.8 percent unemployment for Santa Clarita in May – unchanged from April – and 11.1 percent for Los Angeles County, which had 540,000 residents unemployed. Within the state, L.A. County ranks 26th with Marin County showing...

Officials from the Los Angeles Superior Court said 157 employees were hand-delivered pink slips Friday morning in a dramatic cost-cutting effort. “This is the unfortunate human impact of the need to reduce our spending by $30 million,” said Presiding Judge Lee Smalley Edmon. “We are laying off...

Signs in the public right-of-way will be sent to “sign jail” according to the Santa Clarita City Council. The discussion lasted for an hour and included one council member complaining about being publicly embarrassed by a video and Mayor Frank Ferry admitting to Councilman Timben Boydston that he...

There are letters such as the type you compose and there are letters one uses to form words. In the case of the Santa Clarita, the city council would like to simply use the letters N-O to express their “love” of the high-speed rail project. “This whole project is a boondoggle,” said Council Member...

Michael C. Downs A pretrial conference has been set July 17 for alleged pedophile Michael Downs of Valencia, who faces 34 sex-related charges involving 15 victims, one as young as 12 years of age. Thirty-three of the charges are for felonies and one is a misdemeanor. Those charges include unlawful sexual...

The so-called “truce” between CEMEX and the City of Santa Clarita has expired according to city officials. The agreement was initiated in 2007 after an acrimonious public debate began escalating between the city and CEMEX. “Before the truce? It was contentious. There was a war of sorts going on,”...

Sometimes high school graduation night can mean Pomp and (dire) Circumstance when celebrations get out of control. “We know it’s a time of celebration for many teenagers and young adults who have completed their high school, and we know they’re going to celebrate. We just want them to celebrate...