By Matthew Renda (CN) – A coalition of privacy rights groups, civil liberties organizations and California lawmakers championed a bill Wednesday aimed at strengthening internet privacy laws while giving consumers direct control over their personal data. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American...

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) and the California High-Speed Rail Authority (Authority) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on February 15 to mark the completion of work on the “State Route 99 Realignment for High-Speed Rail” project in the City of Fresno. The project shifted...

The color-enhanced image above was taken at 9:20 a.m. PST on Feb. 12, 2019 (12:20 p.m. EST), as the spacecraft performed its 18th close flyby of the gas giant planet. At the time, Juno was about 8,000 miles (13,000 kilometers) from the planet’s cloud tops, above a latitude of approximately 55...

Facing the threat of stiff fines from state water officials several years ago, Santa Clarita Valley sewage treatment officials approved a multi-million-dollar plan to desalinate water sent downstream from the SCV to Ventura County. Now, SCV Sanitation District engineers say the costs from lawsuits over...

A Santa Clarita man found dead in Northern California last week after his van went off the road and hit a tree may have been murdered, according to investigators probing the man’s death. Patrick Michael Weber, 41, was found dead inside his white 2014 Sprinter van shortly after 7 a.m. Thursday off the...

With the National Weather Service predicting more rain this week and weekend, crime prevention deputies from the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station on Tuesday urged homeless people living in the Santa Clara River bed or other local open space to seek shelter. Here’s more of the story...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra on Tuesday announced the release of a California Department of Justice report on immigration detention facilities in the state. The report is the result of Assembly Bill 103, which passed in 2017, requiring the DOJ, over a 10-year period, to report on: conditions...

Chiquita Canyon Landfill no longer has to pay more than $5 million in penalties and fees imposed by Los Angeles County Public Works after the county hearing officer ruled in favor of the landfill in an appeal. On Feb. 20, Department of Public Works officials announced that Hearing Officer Rossana D’Antonio’s...

On a bipartisan 363-62 vote, the House of Representatives approved Senate Bill 47 on Tuesday, a sweeping lands package that will protect millions of acres of land and designate four new national monuments including one in Saugus to memorialize victims of the 1928 St. Francis Dam Disaster. The Senate...

By Martin Macias, Jr. PASADENA, Calif. (CN) – Low-level stratus clouds that cool Earth’s oceans could disappear if carbon dioxide keeps building up in the atmosphere – a scenario that could trigger a spike in global warming, researchers from the California Institute of Technology said Monday. Carbon...