(CN) — To celebrations by environmentalists, California’s largest irrigation district on Tuesday rejected funding a contentious $17-billion water project that would replumb the West Coast’s largest estuary. The decision by the Westlands Water District, which provides water to more than 700 farms...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed suit against the Trump Administration today over its plan to begin construction of border wall projects in San Diego and Imperial Counties. In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, on behalf of the people...

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson will join California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and other education experts in a panel discussion on Friday on how to help students and parents who are anxious and fearful about federal immigration policies...

On the heels of releasing its draft environmental impact report (EIR) for the Lyons Avenue and Dockweiler Drive extension, the city of Santa Clarita is setting its sights on an alternative that avoids extending Lyons and filters all traffic to Railroad Avenue via 13th Street. “The city of Santa...

Child pornography resulted in a six-month jail sentence for a Santa Clarita man Monday, officials said. Austen Timothy Calams, 35, returned to court Monday to accept a plea deal. “The defendant pleaded no contest to one count of possession of child or youth porngraphy, and was immediately remanded...

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with 17 States, today filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court opposing the Trump Administration’s effort to impose a travel ban on people from six predominantly Muslim countries. The Supreme Court will hear arguments on the case on...

UPDATE, 7:50 p.m. Monday: Elias Ortiz has been found, and is safe, his sister Katherine Ortiz told SCVNews. “At this time we don’t want to give any further details, but we’re just glad he’s okay and we can bring him back home,” she said. Monday morning’s original...

By Matthew Daly, Associated Press, via Courthouse News WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that six of 27 national monuments under review by the Trump administration be reduced in size, with changes to several others proposed. The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument...

Senate Constitutional Amendment 12, or SCA-12, authored by Senator Tony Mendoza (D-Los Angeles) with Scott Wilk (R-Santa Clarita) the principal co-author, has passed by the State Senate on a bipartisan vote of 27-7. “[This] was a huge step in the right direction for the people of L.A. County and all...

The California Highway Patrol’s Newhall station screened 375 vehicles in a DUI checkpoint in Stevenson Ranch Friday night but made no arrests. CHP officers set up the checkpoint near the intersection of Constitution Avenue and The Old Road. “Per the rules of the checkpoint, of those 375 vehicles...