The website for KHTS AM-1220 – hometownstation.com – has come under a cyber attack from unknown individuals attempting to violate the trust and credibility of the station with its dedicated listeners and advertisers. KHTS became aware that “hidden pornography links” had been imbedded...

Gwen Bagley, a self-described part of the YMCA move for over 20 years, has been named Executive Director of the Santa Clarita Valley YMCA. Her most recent role with the YMCA was serving as the CEO for an independent YMCA in a rural part of Virginia. “In that role I learned the art of balancing between...

Calling it the “most significant reduction of services in its history” the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court system has announced the June 30 closure of 56 courtrooms and the reduction of 350 workers. One courtroom, Dept. 4, will be closed at the Santa Clarita Courthouse. The courts...

TK, or Transitional Kindergarten may become the hottest new buzzwords in education. Next year school districts in the state of California will be adding TK classrooms to bridge the transition from preschool to kindergarten. In 2010 the Kindergarten Readiness Act was passed to amend the California Education...

Teaching Artist Janis Doukakis has a saying about art. It’s a visual pun that requires reading: “The eARTh without ART is just, eh.” To take the ‘eh’ out of life on earth Doukakis has combined resources with the Cedarcreek Parent Teacher Association to start the Friday Art Class. “In Friday...

Katniss Everdeen,  the protagonist of Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy and hit feature film, fights for survival using her skills with a bow and arrow. Civil rights attorney Molly Munger visited Santa Clarita with a quiver full of arrows to target the lack of funding for California K...

Only one man has been charged in what was initially reported as a double-stabbing at a home in the 28800 block of Loretta Lane in Canyon Country. Raymundo Soto, 35, faces two felony counts of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon for an incident that occurred Feb.  29. According to sheriff’s...

Santa Clarita Mayor Laurie Ender told residents at City Hall Friday to take a hike. In fact, the entire City Council and staff want their constituents to take a hike. To make it easier, they’ve launched a new website: hikesantaclarita.com. “We’ve been asked by members of the public. I know you...

Movie star Tippi Hedren (“The Birds,” “Marnie”) is still the main attraction at any event involving her Shambala Preserve in Acton despite the mane attraction of the 50 big cats she has rescued. On Monday she was promoting nascent federal legislation – that she influenced...

The proposed high-speed rail system could be looked at like a martini. For some it would shaken, like the faith people had in it ever getting constructed. For others it would be stirred, like the controversy it has stirred up and down the state of California regarding the costs, necessity and benefits. Now...