[KHTS] – A Canyon Country man accused of trying to pay another man $80,000 to have his wife killed took a plea deal Friday. Dino Guglielmelli, 53, who lived in the Sand Canyon area of Canyon Country on Macmillan Ranch Road, was arrested in October for trying to have his wife killed. Under the terms...

[KHTS] – A Sun Valley man was killed shortly after midnight Thursday after a big rig crashed into a Lincoln Town Car on Interstate 5, north of the Santa Clarita Valley. A sedan driven by Davonte T. Carr, 25, of San Jose, made an abrupt lane change at approximately 65 miles per hour, nearly colliding...

[KHTS] – More than 75 faculty members appeared at College of the Canyons’ governing board meeting Wednesday as a “show of unity” amid contentious contract talks between the district and faculty. The meeting came two days after the college’s Faculty Association put out a statement calling...

[KHTS] – Santa Clarita City Council members voted unanimously to approve a draft of the city’s $191.5 million budget for 2014-15. The budget, the result of a six-month process, accounts for a 6 percent increase over last year’s budget, including a $460,000 operating surplus, City Manager Ken...

[KHTS] – The SCV Sanitation District is hosting a meeting Wednesday night about its plans for the removal of chloride (a salt) from the valley’s waste water. It’s the first in a series of meetings ahead of a deadline for what officials are calling a much-needed fee increase for chloride...

[KHTS] – College of the Canyons officials and plaintiffs in a California Voting Rights Act lawsuit reached confidential settlement terms early Tuesday morning, an official said. Meanwhile, Palmdale officials recently decided to attempt to take their CVRA lawsuit fight to the state’s Supreme Court,...

[KHTS] – Emergency personnel are responding to a chemical spill on Interstate 5 near the Highway 126 interchange. Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s deputies, California Highway Patrol officers and county Fire Department personnel have been on the scene since about 8:40 a.m. Traffic on Highway 126...

[KHTS] – A Valencia man facing a maximum of life in prison pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges in connection to an alleged road-rage attack in Stevenson Ranch. Cory Allen Flenory, 27, is facing one count each of mayhem and vandalism over $400, and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The...

[KHTS] – For the first time in about 20 years, College of the Canyons’ full-time faculty has rejected a preliminary offer in contract negotiations with the Santa Clarita Community College District. “Faculty members at COC are outraged and insulted,” said Vincent Devlahovich, president of...

[KHTS] – Two school districts, Newhall and Los Angeles Unified, are suing the Acton Agua Dulce Unified School District, claiming its May 13 approval of a charter application for the Albert Einstein Academy for the Letters, Arts and Sciences was illegal. An AADUSD board member denied the district...