SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced Wednesday an initiative to educate California charitable organizations. The initiative, Operation Donate with Honor, comes after Attorney General Becerra distributed more than 550 delinquency notices, and approximately 200 cease and...

A U.S. Department of the Interior review board has denied Cemex Inc.‘s appeal of a 2015 Bureau of Land Management decision that canceled the company’s mining contracts in Soledad Canyon. The 49-page Interior Board of Land Appeals ruling announced Wednesday upheld the BLM’s 2015 decision,...

By Nick Cahill SACRAMENTO – In the wake of a catastrophic wildfire that ripped through a foothill community during what’s normally the beginning of California’s rainy season, Toni Atkins wanted to be the first lawmaker to act. One week after firefighters fully contained the deadly Camp Fire which...

Washington, DC – U.S. Rep Katie Hill (D-Agua Dulce) continues her work on behalf of local veterans and military families through legislation and local events, while the White House threatens military funding cuts in California. Last week, Hill announced she was an original cosponsor of the Ensuring...

LOS ANGELES – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California collected more than $317 million in criminal, civil and forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year 2018, U.S. Attorney Nicola T. Hanna announced Tuesday. Included in the total amount of $317,453,521 collected during...

A quarantine has been placed on the barnyard at William S. Hart Park in Newhall and birds at the Placerita Canyon Nature Center, due to the threat of Virulent Newcastle Disease. The California Regional Quarantine was issued on February 27 for all public bird exhibitions in all of Los Angeles County...

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station is honoring a fallen deputy. Forty-one years ago, SCV Sheriff’s Deputy Arthur Pelino was shot and killed by a mentally deranged suspect. Pelino, a resident Gorman deputy, had transported the suspect back to his office on March 19, 1978. During the booking...

When Lisa Capella stumbled upon thousands of educational books in a school building that was waiting to be demolished, she knew something had to be done. The books were left behind at the local Albert Einstein Academy, which closed its campuses last year due to declining enrollment and financial constraints....

Los Angeles County residents have been receiving phone calls from alleged Los Angeles County Sheriff’s personnel. The caller states that they are from the Sheriff’s Department and that the victim must pay a sum of money in order for a warrant in their name to be cleared. We all receive Jury Duty...

Mary Jane Hartman holds the bouquet of Zonta yellow roses and plaque she received as 2019 of Zonta’s 2019 Carmen Sarro Award. The presentation was made by Christine Sexton (l), daughter of the late Carmen Sarro and a second generation Zonta member. Mary Jane Hartman, who has been volunteering with...