The Signal
Crown Fire burns up near Acton
Firefighters were called to a second-alarm brush fire that broke out at the 6800 block of Soledad Canyon Road in Acton, dubbed the Crown Fire, and quickly grew to over 280 acres as evacuation orders were issued on
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Hazmat responds to electric vehicle fire at Audi dealership
An electric vehicle located at the Audi Valencia dealership caught fire and prompted shelterin-place orders while the Los Angeles County Fire Department’s HAZMAT team responded to the scene on Wednesday evening. First responders were dispatched to the...
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A flood of furry friends
Castaic’s Los Angeles Countyrun animal shelter has accepted several dogs from county-run shelters in Lancaster and Palmdale to help them make way for
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Preliminary list of congressional candidates released
Santa Clarita is made up of volunteers who continuously make an effort in being at the forefront of the community, and on Saturday the Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley saluted volunteers representing 23 nonprofit organizations from throughout the...
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Animal Care to the rescue
.The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control rescued 400 dogs and 300 cats from a property in Lake Hughes Friday morning, according to a news release from the
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Resilience and style
Standing in the events courtyard at the top of Blomgren Ranch on a hot March evening last week, the Met Gala Santa Clarita Valley’s annual fundraiser guests were Victorian Steampunk personified – absurd, regally elegant, or both. Met Gala SCV has...
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LASD seeks public help with investigation into B&G Club employee charged with sexual assault
Detectives with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s Special Victims Bureau took an additional step Wednesday in asking for the public’s help with their investigation into allegations of a sexual assault of a minor by an employee of the Santa Clarita...
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‘Heart and unity’
Special education students throughout the William S. Hart Union High School District joined together for the 14th annual Hart Games at Valencia High School on Monday morning. The energy was high and the heart and unity were felt throughout Valencia...
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Lessons at ‘The Lucky Cup’
Samantha Nuñez has been a part of the Transitional Learning Center at Hart High School for about four years. The program has helped her navigate life after high school. It’s taught her how to find jobs, manage a budget and learn other skills needed for
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Bouquet Canyon’s battle for survival
Up Bouquet Canyon Road, a little past Central Park, a pair of business parks have proprietors saying their businesses are struggling to survive, thanks to an 11-month closure of Bouquet Canyon Road. The closure, part of a plan approved by the Santa...
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SCV Historical Society celebrates 50 years
The Santa Clarita Valley’s Historical Society celebrated 50 years of preserving local history with its “SCVHS50: Live from Santa Clarita, It’s Saturday Night!” gala on Saturday at the Canyon Country Community Center. Approximately 250 people,...
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Bicyclist dies in crash with bus
A bicyclist was killed in a collision with a city of Santa Clarita Transit bus in Castaic early Wednesday morning, according to an official with the California Highway Patrol Newhall-area Office. The man was approximately 57 years old, according to...
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Community celebrates Holi
Castaic Lake, a place where people typically go to cool off during hot summer days, was instead filled with multicolored powders in celebration of Holi on Saturday, a Hindu festival of colors that marks the arrival of spring. As members of the...
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Students get real talk about the future
Bowman High School got an opportunity to learn about adulthood during JCI Santa Clarita’s seventh “Get Real: Adulting 101” financial literacy event at Child & Family Center on Wednesday morning. About 70 students were able to walk around 12 booths and...
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WISH upon a few Hart stars
Whether it was a vocal performance or a dance number, or playing the guitar or saxophone, this year’s Hart District’s Got Talent, hosted by the WISH Education Foundation, saw the highest number of performers since the event’s inception. The Saugus...
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‘Hearts for Heroes’
Carousel Ranch returned with its annual Open House and Pancake breakfast with this year’s theme “Hearts for Heroes” on Saturday. The event, which was expected to draw about 75 people, invited guests to enjoy fresh flapjacks made by students in the...
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Armed standoff in Saugus
A report of gunfire near an elementary school in Saugus led to a barricaded situation involving a mental health crisis and a soft lockdown of that school and others on Wednesday morning. At about 11 a.m. — two hours after the initial incident — a man...
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A growing tradition
Saugus High School’s Lunar New Year Festival is only three years old, but for some students, it’s already become an event that’s helped to define their high school experience. That’s because the festival – a showcase of song and dance performances by...
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2 killed in crash with county truck
A collision involving a car and a public works truck killed two men on Newhall Avenue and Sierra Highway in the early hours of Sunday morning, according to officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. Los Angeles County Medical Examiner...
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The buzz around campus
College of the Canyons became the only Southern California community college affiliated with Bee Campus USA last week, pledging to become a better place for pollinators of all stripes. The Bee Campus USA program is run by the Xerces Society, an...
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Hats on for soup
Bridge to Home’s 2026 Soup for the Soul Gala set a high bar for dress with its “Off to the races” theme, and guests delivered in spades. Around 250 attendees in high, flowering derby hats and straw boaters packed the Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center...
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Festival of lights, camera, action
There were no million-dollar outfits, or thousands of screaming fans waiting to catch a glimpse of their favorite movie stars on the red carpet like at the Academy Awards. But the applause inside Valencia High School’s theater on Friday was just as...
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County lawyers file lawsuit targeting game company
Lawyers for L.A. County have filed suit alleging Roblox, a billion-dollar gaming company claiming to be the nation’s largest for kids, is failing to protect children from online predators, according to county officials Thursday. The move follows a...
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The Signal gets special visit from wolf
The Signal had a special visit by a furry friend on Thursday morning. However, the furry friend was a wolf named Wahkan. His owners, Colette and Paul Pondella from Shadowland Foundation, a wolf rescue near Lake Hughes, brought him in for his...
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A celebration of unity
In 1915, Dr. Carter G. Woodson, historian and author, founded the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. Eleven years later, “Negro History Week,” coined by Woodson, was founded in a week that entailed both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick...
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Old traditions, new place
The inaugural Lunar New Year Gala hosted by the Santa Clarita Valley Chinese Culture Association was in full swing at the Newhall Family Theatre on Sunday evening. People who attended were greeted by a small market with various booths including a...
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Yelling, screaming then stabbing
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his stepfather after the stepfather’s body was found with multiple stab wounds at a home on the 32700 block of Ridge Top Lane in Castaic on Saturday afternoon, according to a Nixle alert from the Los...
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Kings & Queens
The William S. Hart Union High School District hosted its firstever Superbowl of Chess tournament last weekend at Castaic High School. A total of 62 students ranging from junior high to high school participated in a friendly competition for a chance...
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An Epicurean experience
The gods were smiling on Canyon Springs Community School Friday afternoon. After hours of preparation, beginning bright and early at 8:30 a.m. — following months of preparation that’d begun back in the fall — the school’s sixth-grade class had created...
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Classrooms where it all adds up
The William S. Hart Union High School District saw a gain in mathematics for the 2025 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress where student performance improved at every grade level tested. Canyon High School and Academy of the...
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Students against ICE
Hundreds of Canyon High School students walked out of campus in a demonstration to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Tuesday morning. Students held posters with messages and multicolored flags representing Latin America, as they walked...
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LASD reports juvenile suspect arrested after crash in Valencia leaves 2 dead
A local couple was killed in a three-vehicle traffic collision Friday evening at Bouquet Canyon Road and Newhall Ranch Road, according to officials with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. The two people were married and were with their adult...
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Newhall district sees student progress in midyear review
The Newhall School District governing board received a presentation on the Local Control Accountability Plan’s midyear review during last week’s board meeting. The LCAP is implemented into all state schools that receive public funding to help increase...
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What it means to ‘never forget’
“Never forget” so that it “never happens again.” That’s the message of the drama “Never Forget,” according to the cohort of young students, selected by eighth-grade author Charlie Seigel, starring alongside Seigel in the 40-minute collection of...
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Triumph over their tragedy
When the Santa Clarita Flyers 12-and-under girls’ hockey team arrived at The Cube Wednesday night — their home rink — many rituals honoring their return awaited. There were the fellow hockey players flanking their entrance with raised sticks, the...
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Teaching lessons that last
Students usually doze off during the last few minutes of class before they’re dismissed for the day. Or they may engage in side conversations with other classmates, paying semi-attention to the instructions a teacher is giving. But during a recent...
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Paw patrol & rescue
y Tony Buttitta and High Risk V olunteermichaelkaericherwereenrou te to a training mission in a remote area last Sunday at approximately 7:15 a.m, when they heard wh at sounded like a dog barking, Buttitta said on Saturday during a brief pho ne call....
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In the face of tragedy
Santa Clarita residents are uniting to support the Santa Clarita Flyers 12-and-under girls’ hockey team after members of the team were involved in a fatal crash that killed the father of one of the players Thursday in Colorado. The father was...
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SCV girls’ hockey team involved in fatal crash
A Sprinter van carrying members of a Santa Clarita Valley-based girls hockey team was involved in a fatal three-vehicle crash with a snowplow that killed a team member’s father on Interstate 70 in Colorado on Thursday morning, according to Colorado...
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Lessons from an epidemic
In the Valencia High School auditorium, William S. Hart Union High School District board members, students and parents watched 13 public service announcements with the incentive of educating the community and combating the fentanyl crisis on Friday...
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Park for Princessa
The city of Santa Clarita hosted a groundbreaking for its 41st park, “Via Princessa Park,” right near the Metrolink station in Canyon Country on Thursday morning. Local dignitaries and the City Council were in attendance to commemorate the...
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Cub recovery in Castaic
A 6-month-old female mountain lion cub that had been reported injured in Castaic was found 60 feet away in thick brush on Wednesday afternoon and was being transported for veterinary care, according to the state Fish and Wildlife Department. The cub...
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A legacy of leadership
Sal Frias was never looking for recognition when he pursued a career in education over two decades ago. He went into education because “I believe in kids. In public schools. And in the idea that one caring adult can change a life,” he said....
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Walking in unity
“We will walk together for what is right; with compassion, justice and resilience.” That is what Laurene Weste, mayor of the city of Santa Clarita, said to the sea of people on the sunsoaked Monday morning at Central Park. Several hundred community...
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2 arrested on suspicion of robbery
Two 18-year-old men were arrested Friday on suspicion of stealing $8,500 in cash from an individual in a car at a Valencia Bank of America branch, according to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. The robbery reported in Valencia led to a...
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Driver killed in solo crash
A solo crash that killed a man on State Route 14 near Newhall Avenue on Wednesday afternoon may have been the result of a flat tire, according to the California Highway Patrol. Initial calls indicated that a single-vehicle crash involving a white van...
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‘Living in a nightmare’
Karole Kopecky, a Canyon Country resident, was having a normal day and grabbing dinner on her way home from her second job, when her next-door-neighbor’s daughter called her saying she needed to get home immediately — because Kopecky’s home was on...
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Getting killed for a living
Here’s how it goes down nearly every time: He enters a location, speaks a few lines of dialogue — enough to establish character — and then something bad happens to him. That all might take place over the course of a day or two, but according to...
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Hitting the big screen
Austin Kolodney walked into Regal Edwards Valencia in the beginning of January staring at a movie poster for “Dead Man’s Wire.” To moviegoers passing by, one could just assume that Kolodney was reading about the upcoming film, which is being released...
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Two ‘N Four heads to the Big Easy
Valencia High School’s Two ‘ N Four Vocal Jazz Ensemble performed a preview showcase of the group’s numbers at The Auditorium on Tuesday afternoon in preparation for a performance in a national jazz showcase in New Orleans. The showcase was a chance...
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New year, new plunge
The Santa Clarita Aquatic Center’s 14th annual Polar Plunge was more challenging than last year’s, with temperatures topping out at 60 degrees, but for the plungers who’d come for exactly that purpose – to be challenged – that was a plus. That was...
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A showcase for achievement
The Canyon Springs Community School Hispanic Heritage Festival was unlike anything that’d come before it. Somewhere in the ballpark of 100 to 150 people poured into Canyon Springs this past October for the evening showcase. Kindergarteners performed...
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Welcome, Baby New Year!
Being first-time parents, the last thing Janell Scott (Moeller) and Weston Scott expected was to not only have their daughter born on Jan. 1, but also for her to be the first baby born in Santa Clarita in 2026. Still deciding names, and leaning toward...
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2025 COMES TO A RAINY END
Santa Clarita Valley residents should prepare for another rainy holiday weekend going into the new year with potential evacuations in areas near the Canyon Fire burn scars. Evacuation warnings have been issued for residents who live in the areas...
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From waste to resource
Ever wondered where “waste” goes after it is flushed down the toilet? On a recent Saturday, the Santa Clarita Valley Sanitation District, part of the Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts, held a tour at the Valencia Water Reclamation Plant to show...
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Gas pipe ruptures, forces shelter orders
About 14,200 residents were ordered to shelter in place after a 34inch gas pipe ruptured near Ridge Route Road and Pine Crest Place in Castaic on Saturday evening, according to officials with the Los Angeles County Fire Department. The incident also...
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Lights, camera, action
Clint Lilley, son of stuntman Jack Lilley, has continued the family legacy in the entertainment industry after winning “Best Western Film,” and other awards for his film at the Independent Shorts Awards in Los Angeles in October. Lilley’s short film...
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The holiday storm continues
As Christmas celebrations are “merry and bright,” residents are finding joy and warmth in anything other than the weather. With a downpour in Santa Clarita, and the rest of Southern California, making a strong appearance during the holiday week due to...
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Rainy weather soaks SCV
Santa Clarita Valley residents were advised to be careful on this wet Christmas holiday, after rain soaked the valley on Wednesday and, after a bit of a break, was expected to resume on Christmas Day, according to National Weather Service...
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Giving back to neighbors
The crowd of families that packs Faith Community Church’s patio and backyard area each year for Festividad for Christ gathers mostly on the strength of word of mouth. The Newhall church has seen an average of 500 attendees – and up to around 1,000 at...
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‘The light keeps shining’
The final night of Hanukkah was celebrated with a menorah lighting, Jewish music and camaraderie at Westfield Valencia Town Center on Sunday evening. The evening was illuminated by a large menorah that was cooperatively lit by Santa Clarita Mayor...
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Chiquita Canyon Landfill lets hard-to-reach leachate spill ‘evaporate’
The discussion around Chiquita Canyon Landfill’s latest plan to address a leachate spill drew another violation but no financial penalty for the landfill, which closed off local assistance for impacted residents months ago despite multiple indicators...
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SCV Compassionate Friends holds 24th annual candlelight remembrance
The Santa Clarita Valley Chapter of The Compassionate Friends hosted its 24th annual Candlelight Remembrance Program for children, grandchildren and siblings who were taken too soon at Bethlehemscv on Sunday evening. The evening featured a walkway of...
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Tons of toys for Christmas
It’s the season of giving, and the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley James T. Ventress Clubhouse got an opportunity to share the holiday magic on Wednesday with a large donation of toys. The SCV Boys and Girls Club received three full...
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Christmas for kids in need
The College of the Canyons University Center saw hundreds of families pass through its doors on Saturday, drawn by toys — and a visit from Santa Claus. Hundreds of kids lined up at a single desk in the University Center lobby for an early Christmas...
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