A Canyon Country man who allegedly told a couple in a car at gunpoint to drive him to a convenience store, then took money from them, has been arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and robbery. About 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, a man and a woman were sitting in their car parked near Altamere Avenue in Canyon...

Hart High School science teacher Kathryn Smith has been named by NASA and the SETI Institute as one of 28 teachers selected from across the country to fly on the seventh cycle of NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). Smith becomes the thirteenth Hart School District teacher...

SACRAMENTO – Assemblymember Christy Smith (D- Santa Clarita) introduced AB 1507 on Monday, which would close a loophole in current law which allows charter schools to operate outside of its authorizing district. “I am proud to author AB 1507 which restores the right of individual districts to have...

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...