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1938 - Supervisors award construction contract for jail at Wayside Farms in Castaic (later called Pitchess Detention Center) [story]
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1938 - Supervisors award construction contract for jail at Wayside Farms in Castaic (later called Pitchess Detention Center) [story]
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The city of Santa Clarita will present its latest art exhibition, “Let Go,” by Dani Samson, on view now through Feb. 4, at the Canyon Country Community Center.
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College of the Canyons celebrated the 25th anniversary of its Mathematics, Engineering and Science Achievement program on Tuesday, Nov. 25, with an event held in the Aliso Hall courtyard.
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Kaiser Permanente joined the Saugus Union School District recently to honor its outstanding achievement in health education; all 15 SUSD district schools earned America’s Healthiest Schools All-Star Recognition from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation.
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JCI Santa Clarita is seeking volunteers to support its annual Santa’s Helpers program, a beloved community tradition that brings holiday joy to children and families in need throughout the Santa Clarita Valley.
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"Fatherless No More" is a new faith-based documentary that has been officially accepted for an Oscar-qualifying theatrical run at the Laemmle Theater in Old Town Newhall.
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The Master's University will present "Alleluia! TMU Come Christmas Sing" on Saturday, Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in The Master’s University Music Recital Hall on the college campus is Placerita Canyon.
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The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency Water Resources and Watershed Committee will meet on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 1 p.m.
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College of the Canyons cross country had a combined 10 student-athletes earn All-Western State Conference honors for the 2025 season, with all seven members of the women's team earning recognition.
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College of the Canyons had eight players earn Southern California Football Association (SCFA) All-League awards, with three players recognized as First-Team selections.
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College of the Canyons women's volleyball was recognized with six players named to the all-conference team, with freshman Katelyn Nelson and sophomore Morgan Dumlao both taking home All-Western State Conference, South Division First-Team awards.
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College of the Canyons women's soccer capped its conference championship season by seeing 12 players earn all-conference honors, headlined by sophomore forward Bailey Williamson, who was named the Western State Conference, South Division Offensive Player of the Year.
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1962- Actress and future Soledad Canyon big-cat rescuer Tippi Hedren, "Hitchcock's New Grace Kelly," makes cover of Look magazine for upcoming thriller, "The Birds" [story]
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Nearly 1000 kids are looking for their Christmas toys through Northeast Valley Health Center's Holiday Toy Drive.
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As we wrap up this incredible year with JCI Santa Clarita, my heart is truly overflowing with gratitude. This chapter has shown up in such wonderful ways, and I’m so proud of everything we’ve created together.
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Volunteers in the Santa Clarita Valley will be hosting a Toys for Tots toy drive on Saturday, Dec. 6, noon-2 p.m. at 5 Below in Stevenson Ranch.
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Join the Valley Industry Association as they welcome the 2026 board of Directors on Dec. 19, from 11:45 a.m to 1:30 p.m.
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The Santa Clarita International Film Festival has announced that Casas De Arte, a national touring art gallery based in Houston, Texas, will present a curated selection of exclusive artwork from international artists at this year’s festival.
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Since the COVID-19 pandemic first upended our lives in 2020, the concept of the hybrid workspace has evolved.
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As California continues to see increased safety on its roadways, Governor Gavin Newsom today announced the state’s continued commitment to new and innovative investments in transportation safety, education and enforcement programs.
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The small shells found by researchers that include California State University, Northridge anthropologist Hélène Rougier at La Roche-à-Pierrot, a prehistoric archaeological site in Saint-Césaire, France, date back more than 42,000 years, providing evidence of the oldest workshops for the manufacture of shell ornaments in that area.
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California Credit Union announced today that it has been named a Culture Innovator in the 2025 Best Culture Awards presented by Kudos®, a leading employee recognition, rewards and workplace culture platform.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles announces the release of revised proposed regulations that would allow autonomous vehicle companies to apply for permits to test and deploy heavy-duty technology on California roads and new requirements for light-duty autonomous vehicles.
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1887 - Prohibitionist Henry Needham purchases land in Newhall, attempts to establish "dry" colony [story]
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Have you ever tried to drive to Orange County on a Friday afternoon? The traffic sucks.
Paul…I drive to OC a lot. But what does this have to do with the high speed rail?
Someday high speed rail will go all the way to anaheim. Nevada is also trying to build a line to vegas that would connect in burbank. You would be able to skip most of the traffic to get to these places. Even disneyland is pretty close to the anaheim train station. SF is not the only stop. If you live in New York you can take the train to DC or Boston. why not have the same thing here?
Because people in California drive. People in New York City do not. California is not New York and never will be. Plus, it won’t work. Amtrak tried it and went bankrupt. Now your federal tax dollars subsidize Amtrak. How many more unwanted, antiquated steel-on-steel rail systems must our tax dollars subsidize? You might have heard about the person who tries the same thing again and again, expecting a different outcome…
People in California drive, AND ride. Every single rail system in the state, including Amtrak, is reporting record year-over-year ridership.
Amtrak didn’t start passenger rail in the US. Amtrak was started when private passenger trains went out of business. When they disappeared, states learned (the hard way) that passenger rail was needed in this country. Thus Amtrak was born…subsidy and all.
We are not New York. We’re not Japan. We’re not China, or Germany, or Taiwan, or France, or Spain, South Africa, Turkey, Ukraine, or any other place that has high speed rail.
And we’re also not so different from the rest of world that HSR won’t work here too.
And we’re not L.A. and we’re not S.F. We’re Santa Clarita, we’re Acton, we’re Agua Dulce, and we have real people living in real homes who don’t need the government uprooting them and destroying their neighborhoods.
The direct route from Palmdale to the SFV is not feasible due to cost. Most of that route would require tunneling under the San Gabriel National Monument, which would be enormously expensive and cost far more than the overland route along the SR14 corridor.
High-speed rail is an efficient way to transport a large number of people between major population and business centers and produces much less air pollution than autos would.
Nobody wants an intrusive infrastructure project coming though their backyard. Using that logic, neither the Cal Water Project nor the Interstate Highway System would have been built back in the day.
Just asking – You mention “transport a large number of people between mayor population and business centers” … Has anyone figured out how many people actually need to commute from L.A. to S.F. on a daily basis? And what that cost-per-rider would be?
“Has anyone figured out how many people actually need to commute from L.A. to S.F. on a daily basis? And what that cost-per-rider would be?”
Yes. The airlines would have all of that info I’m sure.
But travel between LA and SF isn’t the only issue. Intervening cities will benefit too. By connecting LA and SF, we can, at the same time, build commuting connections between Fresno and SF, LA and Bakersfield, and even Fresno and Bakersfield.
So even if LA-SF isn’t a commuting market, HSR will help expand the places that are.
Get over it. This isn’t a small town anymore, it is now one of largest suburbs of Los Angeles County. If you are going to speak for all of us then why weren’t you speaking for us when we didn’t want all the mass development. The town will continue to progress and grow. 15 years ago nobody knew where Santa Clarita was located, now everyone lives here. Maybe the folks at the California High Speed Rail know more about what’s better for us than we do. Considering Santa Clarita has always been a pass threw town for railway since its beginnings. How about scvtv santa clarita report the local news and not try to speak for the whole population on matters that not everyone agrees on.
Nailed it! lol
Lived here for 50 years. Watched Santa Clarita grow like topsy. For the most part the development has been planned well, except there is no emergency care for folks on the east side of the valley. Amazing really. But now this fast train is being proposed or should I say crammed down our throats. Right now we need water. We’re not going to be bullied into this boondoggle. Beware!We’re a valley of sleeping tigers.
Well, it’s going to happen. Regardless of what you think. If you know anything about economics then you know that it’s best to always keep building. Or you can keep thinking we live in the 50’s and ignoring the fact that the city is filled with more people who want it rather than the few who still think there are only three stop lights in the town. My point in general was that the local news shouldn’t be spewing out opinions and trying to represent a whole community and just report the news.
The local news is extremely biased in their reporting of the news lol but I think we have more chance of stopping the train than getting unbiased news reporting from our khts/scvtv peeps.
It’s all about lining Mr Feinstein pockets he’s made millions already on bonds high speed rail isn’t worth it
This is a necessary addition to this state and nation if we plan on catching up with Europe or Asian on the front of public transportation and becoming modern.
I’m still not sure of the benefit to anyone except for the builder, and owners. If the rail is built, which I’m guessing won’t be in my lifetime since this is only one of many hurdles they need to surpass and then still build, how do the airlines, restaurants, fast food, oil & gas companies all compensate for their lost revenues from people taking the train? The list can go on and on….and all of this just to get people to SF quicker? Now if the LA to Vegas route was still on the table that would make sense…:)
The airports are crowded enough. Ever try to fly out on a Friday afternoon? The planes aren’t going away, they will be able to offer more profitable long distance flights since they won’t have to have as many flight for these puddle jumpers. Of course there will still be short haul flights too.
Don’t understand how so many who don’t want the train use “we don’t need a train we need water” argument. Yes we need water. There is a historic drought. But the train can’t change a drought, the train doesn’t mean it rains, building a train does not mean we can’t build and solve other issues the state suffers from. No doubt we need to build. Trains, bridges, desalination plants. But we also need different ways to travel our huge state besides planes and cars. And we need jobs. Now we do need water plants. Let’s build them. Santa Barbara has one that’s been in moth balls for 12 years.
Maybe they should give our city a stop and it would feel a bit better. The fact that we don’t have a train stop just makes you wonder why it needs to come through our city. Not really for or against it, but that would make a difference to me and I’m gonna be affected by the rail since I live on this side of the town.
This seems like a completely unbiased news report.
Pete’s Dragon. Love that movie
What is this rail stuff where and when
How do you know what people want?? You behave like a grade school TV station.Truly.
Good! Keep fighting it! I sure as hell don’t want that rail here let alone it built period!!! Waste of money by a senial governor. Also hey people, if you don’t like SCV then leave :D. LA isn’t far so stop complaining about the city! Nothing wrong with the city.
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