UPDATE, 1:20 p.m.: Caltrans reports Interstate 5 is now open in both directions through the Grapevine, and urges drivers to be cautious due to residual snow, ice and wet pavement. Original post, 11:40 a.m. Monday: All northbound lanes of Interstate 5 remain closed at Parker Road in Castaic through the...

For the second straight year, developers wanting to build 70 homes on The Old Road, near Parker Road, in Castaic, are appealing to regional planners for a one-year time extension. Members of the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning are set to review an application filed by housing developer...

Rep. Katie Hill, D-Agua Dulce, announced Thursday she will join fellow legislators on the Freshmen Working Group on Addiction, a bipartisan effort to promote policies that attempt to end the nation’s addiction crisis. Started by Rep. David Trone, D-Maryland, the group is composed of 36 members from...

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station deputies arrested a 22-year-old Santa Clarita man on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol and possession of a loaded gun Wednesday night, the station reported Sunday. Here’s more of the story from the station’s social media: “Late...

SCV Water officials are blazing a course they set during a recent two-day, strategy-setting retreat. Transparent and “plain language” communication with customers were among the goals identified by SCV Water’s Board of Directors at the recent planning workshop. Directors and management staff looked...

A Canyon Country man allegedly linked to more than 1,900 graffiti tagging incidents was arrested on Monday by Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station COBRA detectives, the station reported Friday. Christian Pacheco, 25, of Canyon Country, who is on active probation for multiple crimes, was arrested...

Recently elected Assemblywoman Christy Smith (D-Santa Clarita) will hold a community swearing-in ceremony and her first local town hall meeting at Oak Hills Elementary School in Valencia beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday. The ceremony will include remarks by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon (D-Lakewood) and...

By Tim Ryan WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump declared a national emergency Friday, a move that will let him pour roughly $8 billion into construction of a wall along the southern border. In a lengthy speech from the Rose Garden at the White House Friday morning, Trump repeated his claims that he...

Congress passed a funding bill Thursday to prevent another government shutdown, which includes $1.375 billion in funding that will be used to support 55 miles of border barrier. The bill was passed with bipartisan support as politicians from both sides of the aisle broke with party ranks to make the...

SACRAMENTO – California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has urged health insurance providers to remove prior authorization requirements for medication-assisted treatment of individuals with an opioid abuse disorder. In a letter Thursday addressed to 17 health insurance executives, Attorney General...